Coccinia grandis

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 : 12

Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt

GRIN Nomen number: 10974

Family: Cucurbitaceae

Common Name: ivy gourd (English), kanduri (Urdu-Pakistan), kundree ( India), kundur (Urdu- Pakistan), little gourd (English), pepasan (Malay), pepino cimarrón (Spanish), scarlet-fruited gourd (English), Tindola (German), tindora ( India), tindori ( India).

Native: AFRICA - Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda; West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Zaire; West Tropical Africa: Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; ASIA-TEMPERATE - Arabian Peninsula: Yemen; China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan; ASIA-TROPICAL - Indian Subcontinent: India - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Kerala, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; AUSTRALASIA - Australia: Australia - Northern Territory.

Naturalized: PACIFIC- Southwestern Pacific: Fiji.

Cultivated: widely cultivated elsewhere.

Field Infestation: Liquido et al. 1994: From July 1990 to October 1992, a total of 313 fruits (3.21 kg) was collected on Hawaii Island. Bactrocera latifrons was recovered from 1 of 4 collections (25 %) with an overall infestation rate of 27.9 B. latifrons per kg of fruit.

Jackson et al. 2003: Fruits were collected biweekly in 1993 near Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, for a total of 1,592 fruits from which 8,350 tephritid puparia were recovered most of which were melon fly, but 35 were oriental fruit flies, and one was B. latifrons .

Coccinia indica Wight and Arn. , see Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt