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).
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