Volume 16, Issue 2, July 2015, Pages 403–408
Kituta RUBABURA1, B.M.T. Munyuli2, BISIMWA Basengere Espoir3, and K.S. Kazi4
1 Departement de Biologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles, CRSN-Lwiro, D.S.Bukavu, Bukavu, Sud Kivu, RD Congo
2 Department of Biology, Research Centre in Natural Sciences, (CRSN) Lwiro, D.S./Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, RD Congo
3 Faculty of Agriculture, Catholic University of Bukavu (U.C.B-BUKAVU), B.P:285/BUKAVU Bukavu, Sud Kivu, RD Congo
4 Department of Geochemistry and Environment, Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO), Goma, North Kivu, RD Congo
Original language: English
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Damage due to fruit flies of the genus Ceratitis in orchards (mainly mango and citrus) is high but nothing is known about the fruit fly species involved in the South Kivu region. The tephritids flies were identified at the Research Centre in Natural Sciences (CRSN / Lwiro) and when identification was unsuccessful specimens were sent for identification to the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Tervuren, Belgium).Ceratitis fasciventris was the dominant Ceratitis species captured during the entire experiment, biweekly. The former had pest dominant Ceratitis fasciventris and six Ceratitis individuals was found such us Ceratitis anonae (Graham), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann),Ceratitis cosyra (Walker), Ceratitis fasciventris (Bezzi), Ceratitis punctacta (Wiedemann) and Ceratitis rosa (Karsch).
Author Keywords: Genus, fruit, flies, Irhambi-Katana, Kabare.
Kituta RUBABURA1, B.M.T. Munyuli2, BISIMWA Basengere Espoir3, and K.S. Kazi4
1 Departement de Biologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles, CRSN-Lwiro, D.S.Bukavu, Bukavu, Sud Kivu, RD Congo
2 Department of Biology, Research Centre in Natural Sciences, (CRSN) Lwiro, D.S./Bukavu, Bukavu, South Kivu, RD Congo
3 Faculty of Agriculture, Catholic University of Bukavu (U.C.B-BUKAVU), B.P:285/BUKAVU Bukavu, Sud Kivu, RD Congo
4 Department of Geochemistry and Environment, Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO), Goma, North Kivu, RD Congo
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Damage due to fruit flies of the genus Ceratitis in orchards (mainly mango and citrus) is high but nothing is known about the fruit fly species involved in the South Kivu region. The tephritids flies were identified at the Research Centre in Natural Sciences (CRSN / Lwiro) and when identification was unsuccessful specimens were sent for identification to the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Tervuren, Belgium).Ceratitis fasciventris was the dominant Ceratitis species captured during the entire experiment, biweekly. The former had pest dominant Ceratitis fasciventris and six Ceratitis individuals was found such us Ceratitis anonae (Graham), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann),Ceratitis cosyra (Walker), Ceratitis fasciventris (Bezzi), Ceratitis punctacta (Wiedemann) and Ceratitis rosa (Karsch).
Author Keywords: Genus, fruit, flies, Irhambi-Katana, Kabare.
How to Cite this Article
Kituta RUBABURA, B.M.T. Munyuli, BISIMWA Basengere Espoir, and K.S. Kazi, “Invasive fruit fly, Ceratitis species (Diptera: Tephritidae), pests in South Kivu region, eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 403–408, July 2015.
