Solanum aethiopicum L.

McQuate, Grant T. & Liquido, Nicanor J., 2013, Annotated World Bibliography of Host Fruits of Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae), Insecta Mundi 2013 (289), pp. 1-61 : 25

Solanum aethiopicum L.

GRIN Nomen number: 100448

Family: Solanaceae

Common Name: aubergine amère (French), Chinese scarlet eggplant (English), gilo (English), jilo (Portuguese-Brazil), kumba (English), röd aubergin (Swedish), scarlet eggplant (English), shum (English), tomato-fruit eggplant (English).

Cultivated: AFRICA- Africa.

Field Infestation: Mwatawala et al. 2007: From February to October 2006, a total of 464 S. aethiopicum fruits (8.55 kg) was collected at several different localities in Tanzania. 197 adult B. latifrons were recovered from 18 of the collections with an overall infestation rate of 39.9 B. latifrons per kg of fruit collected, averaged over the 18 collections with B. latifrons recovery.

Mwatawala et al. 2009: Mostly after October 2006, a total of 3,164 fruits (30.56 kg) was collected in the Morogoro region of Tanzania. Bactrocera latifrons was recovered from 60 out of 83 collections (72%) with an overall average infestation rate of 43.8 emerged adults per kg fruit.

Mziray et al. 2010a: From April 2007 to March 2008, fruits were collected weekly, as available, at the Sokoine University of Agriculture horticulture unit ( Tanzania), with an average monthly infestation rate (for months where B. latifrons was recovered) of 59.1 B. latifrons per kg fruit, with B. latifrons recovered from about 68.5% of collections.

Mziray et al. 2010a: From February to April 2008, a total of 292 B. latifrons adults was recovered from a total of 685 fruits (12.6 kg) collected from different elevations in the Morogoro region ( Tanzania). There was an overall infestation rate of 23.2 B. latifrons per kg of fruit.

Mziray et al. 2010b: From March 2007 to March 2008, a total of 3,411 fruits (61.18 kg) was collected from the Morogoro region of Tanzania. Bactrocera latifrons was recovered in 157 of 228 collections (68.9%) with an overall infestation rate of 36.94 B. latifrons per kg of fruit. (45.0 flies per kg infested fruits) (Given the common name “African eggplant” in the paper, but this common name also attributed to Solanum anguivi and S. macrocarpon ).

Listing Only: McQuate 2009.