Abstract

We recorded for the first time the presence of the two fruit flies pests, Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) and Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae) and the parasitoid Doryctobracon areolatus (Szépligeti) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the oceanic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil. The specimens were collected in traps installed during June/2019 to February/2020. The fruit flies and the parasitoid species are widespread in the Brazilian mainland and have most likely been introduced accidentally in the archipelago.

Highlights

  • The oceanic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, state of Pernambuco, Brazil is located 360 km from the Brazilian continent and is a federal preservation area

  • The flora of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago was basically approached by Ridley (1888) that reported several species of plants, without quantifying them, and Batistella (1996) that carried out a floristic survey and cataloged 60 dominant plant species in

  • The specimens collected during this study was deposited in the following institutions: INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

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Introduction

The oceanic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, state of Pernambuco, Brazil is located 360 km from the Brazilian continent and is a federal preservation area. The specimens collected during this study was deposited in the following institutions: INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil (M.L. Oliveira, curator) and CZMA, Coleção Zoológica do Maranhão, Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil With the collections carried out, 90 specimens of two species of fruit flies were obtained, Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) with 88 specimens (66 are females and 22 are males) and Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) with only two specimens.

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