A checklist of the Dacini fruit flies of Borneo (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae)

Occurrence Specimen
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Description

Fruit flies of the tribe Dacini (Tephritidae) include many agricultural pests, but also crucial pollinators of orchids and other plants. We carried out surveys for Dacini fruit flies using methyl eugenol, cue lure, and zingerone as male attractants across Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia in 2018 and 2019, in habitats ranging from primary forest in highly protected Conservation Areas, selectively logged forest, secondary forest, and highly disturbed sites. Because 2019 was a mast year with mass fruiting, our surveys of that year collected over 33,000 flies, compared to just over 500 flies in 2018 – with similar trapping efforts. Our work adds 46 species to the 43 previously known from Borneo, bringing the total for the island to 89. We describe three new species: Bactrocera (Bactrocera) melanobivittata Doorenweerd sp. nov., Dacus (Mellesis) danumensis Doorenweerd, sp. nov. and Zeugodacus (Zeugodacus) cataracta Doorenweerd, sp. nov. The new species are only found in the conservation areas; B. melanobivittata is attracted to methyl eugenol and D. danumensis and Z. cataracta are attracted to zingerone. We discuss how biogeographic affinities of the species in the checklist support a strong biogeographic boundary across Wallacea, we highlight significant records, and discuss the relevance of these fly species for protecting agriculture as well as native ecosystems.

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Doorenweerd C, Chung A, Maryani A. Mustapeng A, Rubinoff D (2025). A checklist of the Dacini fruit flies of Borneo (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae). Version 1.1. ZooKeys. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.pensoft.net/resource?r=checklist_dacini_borneo&v=1.1

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Camiel Doorenweerd
  • User
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Arthur Chung
  • Originator
Sabah Forestry Department
Andi Maryani A. Mustapeng
  • Originator
Sabah Forestry Department
Daniel Rubinoff
  • Originator
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Camiel Doorenweerd
  • User

Geographic Coverage

The island of Borneo

Bounding Coordinates South West [1.754, 110.318], North East [6.028, 118.19]

Taxonomic Coverage

Fruit fly tribe Dacini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae)

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Diptera
Family Tephritidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2017-01-01 / 2019-12-31

Project Data

No Description available

Title Taxonomy and systematics of Dacini fruit flies

The personnel involved in the project:

Camiel Doorenweerd
  • Point Of Contact

Sampling Methods

Trapping with male lures

Study Extent Borneo

Method step description:

  1. See methods in "The Dacini fruit flies of Borneo: an annotated checklist with 89 species including three new to science (Tephritidae: Dacinae)"

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements We thank the Sabah Biodiversity Centre    for providing collection permits [Ref. JKM/MBS.1000-2/3 JLD.3 (88); JKM/MBS.1000-2/2 JLD.7 (109)], and export permits that made this study possible. The CCF of Sabah Forestry Department, the Director of Sabah Parks and Yayasan Sabah are acknowledged for their support. We would like to thank Michael San Jose and Daniel Nitta for helping to prepare for the surveys. Unforgotten, Suzika Juiling (internship student) and Ian Brandon (FRC), who kindly volunteered during the fieldwork in Sepilok. We thank Ms. Eyen Khoo for donating some of the tubes for sampling. We thank Stadia Maps for making the Stamen-Terrain tiles available for non-commercial academic use. Funding for this project was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plant Protection Act 7721. These funds were managed as cooperative agreements between USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the University of Hawaiʻi’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (AP19PPQS&T00C094, AP20PPQS&T00C076, AP21PPQS&T00C101). Additional funding was provided by The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension (CSREES), Grant/Award Number: HAW00942-H.
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