Pepper Fruit Fly

Catalogue Type

Plant Pests Catalogue

Scientific Name

Atherigona Orientalis

Family

Muscidae

Distinguishing Characters

Color - orange to brown, except for postpronotal lobes and tip of scutellum (yellow).
Larvae are Body peg-like in shape, tapering anteriorly and bluntly rounded posteriorly.

Host Crop

Cabbage and, bell, orange, melon, tomato, beans and sorghum

Order

Diptera

Photo of Insect

Photo of Damaged Crop

Description

This fly is highly polyphagous.

Larvae feed and develop on live and decaying plant material, feces, carrion and even the live larvae of other insects including the tobacco caterpillar.