First report on parasitoids on fruit flies (Tephritidae : Diptera)‎ in Sudan

Abstract EN

Laboratory experiments were conducted at Kassala and Hudieba Agricultural Research Stations and also at the Plant Protection Directorate (PPD) South Kordofan Station.

Consecutive rearing of fruit flies from fruits of guava, (Psidium guajava), mango, (Mangifera indica) and sidir, (Zizyphus spp) collected from Khartoum, Gezira, River Nile, South Kordofan, Kassala and Sinnar states led to isolation and identification of the parasitoids Psyttalia cosyra and Euryotma sp., for the first time in Sudan, from a guild of fruit flies including the mango fruit fly, Ceratitis cosyra, medfly, C.

capitata the guava fruit fly, C.

quinaria.

The parasitoids Psyttalia concolor and Euryotma sp emerged from pupae of Zizyphus fruit fly, C.

incompleta.