Wild Tobacco Fruit Fly - Bactrocera cacuminata
Family Tephritidae
This page contains pictures and information about Wild Tobacco Fruit Flies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia
- Body length 6mm
- This Wild Tobacco Fly is easily found on the Wild Tobacco plants Solanum mauritianum in Brisbane. The fly lays eggs into wild tobacco fruits
- This fly looks similar to the Queensland Fruit fly. Our visitor Graham Teakle sent us email advised that this should be the Wild Tobacco Fly.
- Reference:
- 1. Bactrocera cacuminata (Hering) - Fruitfly - NSW Agriculture, 1998.
- 2. Wild tobacco fly - PaDIL - Pests and Diseases Image Library, 2005.
