Carpomya (Carpomya) vesuviana A. Costa, 1854

Korneyev, V. A., Mishustin, R. I. & Korneyev, S. V., 2017, The Carpomyini Fruit Flies Diptera: Tephritidae Of Europe Caucasus And Middle East: New Records Of Pests With Improved Keys, Vestnik Zoologii 51 (6), pp. 453-470 : 458

Carpomya (Carpomya) vesuviana A. Costa, 1854 ( fig. 4 , 5 )

Carpomya vesuviana Costa, 1854: 175 ; White & Elson-Harris, 1992: 283; Norrbom, 1997: 340; Norrbom et al., 1999: 115; Mohamadzade Namin, 2016; Carpomyia vesuviana: Bezzi, 1910: 10 ; Silvestri, 1916: 179; Hendel, 1927: 93; Kandybina, 1965: 666, 1977: 112; Trikoz & Litvinova, 2007: 74; Mamedov et al., 2015.

Material. Ukraine: Kherson, in fruits of Ziziphus , 07.2016, 4 third-instar larvae ( R. Mishustin) ( SIZK).

Distribution. Italy, Moldova (unconfirmed records), Ukraine (first confirmed record); Asian Russia (North Caucasus), Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Thailand; Mauritius.

Host plants. Ziziphus jujuba Mill. , Z. mauritiana Lam. , Z. nummularia (Burm.) Wight and Arn. , Z. rotundifolius Lam. , Z. sativus Gaertn. (Rhamnaceae) ( Freidberg & Kugler, 1989; Smith & Bush, 1999).

Remarks. Trikoz & Litvinova (2007) and various Internet sites report C. vesuviana from Crimea (since 1998) and Kherson Region in Ukraine, but no material in collections was available for identification. Now this species is considered to be well established pest in all the areas of planting of Ziziphus in Southern Ukraine.

Figures

Fig. 4. Carpomya spp. wings: 1 — C. (Goniglossum) wiedemanni; 2 — C. (Myiopardalis) pardalina; 3 — C. (s. str.) incompleta; 4 — C. (s. str.) schineri; 5 — C. (s. str.) vesuviana.

Fig. 5. Rhagoletis spp. mesonotums (1–8), dorsal view, and head (2), lateral view: 1 — R. completa; 2 — R. bagheera; 3 — R. berberidis; 4 — R. cerasi; 5 — R. flavicincta; 6 — R. flavigenualis; 7 — R. obsoleta, Myhiia; 8 — R. sp. near obsoleta, Mt. Hermon.