Taxonomy
Valid name:
Zeugodacus (
Sinodacus)
hochii (Zia, 1936)
Preferred common name: None
Synonyms:
Sinodacus hochii (original combination in Zia 1936)
Bactrocera hochii (subsequent combination in Liang et al. 1993 )
Callantra hochii (subsequent combination in Hering 1952)
Dacus hochii (subsequent combination in Hardy & Adachi 1954)
Sinodacus hainanus Chao & Lin 1996 (junior synonym)
Sinodacus jiannanus Chao & Lin 1996 (junior synonym)
Bactrocera jiannanus (subsequent combination in Norrbom et al. 1999)
Sinodacus jinreni Chao & Lin 1996 (junior synonym)
Sinodacus laterum Wang 1988 (junior synonym)
Bactrocera laterum (subsequent combination in Wang 1998)
Sinodacus qionganus Chao & Lin 1996 (junior synonym)
Bactrocera qionganus (subsequent combination in Norrbom et al. 1999)
Sinodacus quaternum Wang 1988 (junior synonym)
Bactrocera quaterna (subsequent combination in White & Hancock 1997)
Sinodacus rubzovi Chao & Lin 1996 (junior synonym)
Morphology-based identification
Zeugodacus hochii can be identified reliably based on morphological characters. Spot characters are the large brown distal dot that crosses vein M (larger than the mark in
Z. cucurbitae), and a black band across the face.
Molecular identification
COI sequence data can be used to identify
Z. hochii (
Doorenweerd et al. 2024Doorenweerd et al. 2024:
Doorenweerd C, San Jose M, Leblanc L, Barr N, Geib SM, Chung AYC, Dupuis JR, Ekayanti A, Fiegalan E, Hemachandra KS, Hossain MA, Huang C, Hsu Y, Morris KY, Maryani A. Mustapeng A, Niogret J, Pham TH, Thi Nguyen N, Sirisena UGAI, Todd T, Rubinoff D, 2024. Towards a better future for DNA barcoding: Evaluating monophyly‐ and distance‐based species identification using COI gene fragments of Dacini fruit flies. Molecular Ecology Resources 24: e13987. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13987).
Distribution
Zeugodacus hochii is widespread in Southeast Asia from Bangladesh to Vietnam and south to Sumatra in Indonesia. Its native range is unclear.
Further information
Zeugodacus hochii is reported as a "category D" pest of the fruit of
Luffa cylindrica in
Vargas et al. 2015Vargas et al. 2015:
Vargas RI, Pinero JC, Leblanc L, 2015. An overview of pest species of Bactrocera fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) and the integration of biopesticides with other biological approaches for their management with a focus on the pacific region. Insects 6: 297–318. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects6020297. A category D pest is there defined as "species that have been occasionally bred from commercial/edible fruit or cucurbits".
