The Biology of Nonfrugivorous Tephritid Fruit Flies

David H. Headrick, University of California - Riverside
Richard D. Goeden, University of California - Riverside

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Posted with permission from the Annual Review of Entomology. Copyright © 1998 Annual Reviews.

Abstract

This review is the first comprehensive treatment of the biology of nonfrugivorous fruit flies of the family Tephritidae. Feeding habits of destructive and useful species, morphology of immature stages, and hypotheses regarding structural homology and the evolutionary biology of nonfrugivorous tephritids are reviewed, including zoogeography and theories involving resource heterogeneity, guild structure, resource partitioning, resource utilization, facultative niche exploitation, extrinsic and intrinsic factors, host associations, seasonal distribution and phenology, aggregative and circumnatal life history strategies, voltinism, diapause, aestivation, oviposition site, clutch size, and supernumerary oviposition.