Levantamento de moscas-das-frutas e de seus parasitóides no município de Ferreira Gomes, Estado do Amapá

Abstract

This research was aimed at doing a survey on fruit flies and their parasitoids species in Ferreira Gomes, Amapá State, Brazil. Exactly 38 samples of fruits of six vegetables species were collected and it totaled 43,7kg from March to July of 2005. It was possible to obtain 515 puparia that emerged 123 Tephritidae adults and 102 parasitoids. Moreover, five species of Anastrepha were registered: A. fraterculus, A. obliqua, A. striata, A. antunesi and A. turpiniae. Spondias mombin and Psidium guajava were the only hosts of Tephritidae species, they had indices of natural infestation of 0.51 e 0.24 puparia/fruit and 52.3 and 5.4 puparia kg-1, respectively. The dominant species were A. obliqua, in S. mombin, and A. striata, in P. guajava. Four species of Braconidae were registered: Doryctobracon areolatus, Utetes anastrephae, Opius bellus and Opius sp. Of all these species, the first one was the most abundant.