Identification and precaution of the ber fruit fly, Carpomya vesuviana, a quarantine pest insect in China
Author of the article:ZHANG Run- Zhi1** , WANG Xing- Jian2 , Adili Shataer3
Author's Workplace：1.State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents : Institute of Zoology , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 2. Institute of Zoology , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100101, China; 3. College of Forestry , Xinjiang Agricultur al University , Urumqi 830052, China
Key Words：Carp omya vesuviana, morphological characters, identification, biological invasion, precaution
Abstract：The ber fruit fly, Carpomy a vesuviana Costa, is one of Chinese new quarantine pests which are prohibited into China regulated by the Ministry of Agriculture. Its potential invasion may lead to diastral damage to Chinese date production. The paper provided the morphological characters of the pest and a key to the known species of the genus Carpomya. Moreover, the impacts, bionomics and some investigating and control methods were given for more carefully and seriously prevention of its invasion.