Rhagoletis indifferens

TaxID: 43413

Basic Information

Rhagoletis indifferens

North American cherry fruit fly, Western Cherry Fruit Fly

Rhagoletis indifferens, the western cherry fruit fly, is a pest that lives only on cherries. Its native host is Prunus emarginata. The adult form of this insect is slightly smaller than a housefly, with white stripes across the abdomen, yellow markings near the base of the wings, and black markings on the wings. The larva, which is the stage of this insect's lifecycle that causes the actual damage to the fruit, is similar to a typical fly larva or maggot. Female flies lay eggs in the cherries, where the larvae feed for 1 C2 weeks before exiting. Western cherry fruit flies damage fruit by feeding, in both the adult and larval stages.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Diptera

Tephritidae

Rhagoletis

indifferens

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) madkaplan@BY-NC
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(c) Amy Campion@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (13 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (50 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Albania Absent —
Austria Absent 2019
Belgium Quarantine pest ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex II A) 2019
Bulgaria Quarantine pest ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex II A) 2019
Belarus Absent —
Switzerland A1 list 2019
Cyprus Absent 2019
Czechia Quarantine pest ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex II A) 2019
Germany Unknow 2019
Denmark Quarantine pests 2019
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Distribution (8 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

2
Present
6
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Belgium Absent —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Absent —
Netherlands Absent —
New Zealand Absent —
Slovenia Absent —
United States of America Present
United States of America Absent

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature