Potential Parasitoids for Biocontrol of the Ber Fruit Fly, Carpomya vesuviana Costa (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Alieh Amini,
Hossein Lotfalizadeh,
Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo
et al.
Abstract:The ber fruit fly (BFF), Carpomya vesuviana Costa, 1854 (Diptera: Tephritidae), is an important key pest of the jujube, Ziziphus jujuba Miller. The main control measures against this pest are to use chemical control, but the first survey for its natural enemies was performed in Iran. Here, we report eight species of parasitic wasps of the BFF from five different families. The family Eurytomidae with three species, the families Pteromalidae and Mutillidae with two species each, and the families Braconidae and D… Show more
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