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FOR TEPHRITID FRUIT FLY WORKERS

FRUIT FLY NEWS

FFN#31—MAY 2015

In this issue..

Fruit Fly News interview with Ian White 3

Serge Quilici Obituary (1955 –2015) 8

Cheslavo A. Korytkowski Guillén Obituary (1941-2015) 9

Sexual behaviour and male volatile compounds 10

Pakistan workshop on fruit fly Biology and Taxonomy 11

Doctoral scholarship opportunity 13

People 14

Book release 17

Coming events 18

Tephritid fruit fly references 18

Newsletter back issues 18

FRUIT FLY NEWS EDITORS

Abdeljelil Bakri

Brian Barnes

Olivia Reynolds

Pablo Liedo

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Handbooks for the Identifi-cation of British Insects se-ries. After that I secured a further assistantship study-ing the nymphal stages of psyllids and I was able to write-up that work for a Ph.D., with external super-vision provided by Dave Hollis at the NHM. There followed another year in Liverpool writing a second volume in the Royal Ento-mological Society’s Hand-book series to cover the im-mature stages of British psyllids.

The next two years were spent working for the Na-ture Conservancy Council as part of a small team compiling a register of sites of importance for the con-servation of insects. I was lucky enough to be posted to Edinburgh and given the responsibility of collating the register for Scotland. The contract was only for two years and at just the right time for me the Com-monwealth Institute of En-tomology (CIE) were re-cruiting staff for three new posts. None were in

kan pipeline project) held greater appeal for me and I developed a childhood in-terest in beetles. When I was about 13 my father’s job moved to the south-east of London and we joined the Kent Field Club. They also had meetings almost every weekend and two of the reg-ulars (Ken Side and Eric Philp) were enthusiast Cole-opterists. I started to take specimens to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London where I met more professional entomologists and inevitably I decided I wanted to be one!

I was far from being a gifted student but by grim deter-mination managed to get the school qualifications that allowed me to study Zoology at Imperial College, London, then regarded as almost the essential basis for a career in entomology. After graduating I went to work as a research assistant at Liverpool Polytechnic (now John Moores Univer-sity), helping Ian Hodkin-son to write a book on Psyl-loidea (Homoptera) for the

I an White is

one of the great-est contributors to tephritid fruit fly sys-tematics in our time.

Here is an intimate inter-view shared by Ian, in-cluding some enthralling anecdotes from an excep-tional career and life in en-tomology

How (Why) did you choose to be an ento-mologist?

My parents belonged to a local natural history socie-ty in Hertfordshire (to the north of London) and used to attend field meetings almost every weekend. The group produced a book on the fauna and flo-ra of a place called North-aw Great Wood and they took on the task of writing a chapter on the fungi. However, the insect survey work carried out by Brian Sage (an employee of BP who professionally led im-pact surveys for the Alas-

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Coleoptera which was where my real passion still lay so I risked making an open appli-cation without specifying which post I was particularly interested in. That paid off and in 1982 I was recruited to be assistant Dipterist under Keith Harris. CIE was part of the Commonwealth Agricul-tural Bureaux (CAB) but the insect taxonomists were based in the NHM, and I soon start-ed to focus on Tephritidae as being amongst the most im-portant fly pests in the mem-ber countries.

What are you most proud of in your career and who inspired you?

It’s difficult to choose but I suppose really it was in find-ing ways to promote fruit fly taxonomy to various broader fields. When I started to study fruit flies I had expected to be working on tropical genera from the start. However, I needed training as a Dipterist first so compiled yet another volume in the British Hand-books series. Most European tephritids develop in the flow-er heads of Asteraceae, some of which are adventive weeds in North America, and I got involved in weed biocontrol projects. Taxonomic study cleared up a lot of confusion of host relationships and the potential list of control agents after revision was greater

than before. That was a quantifiable benefit of basic taxonomy that I returned to again and again when trying to “sell” taxonomy.

Part of my job was to pro-vide routine identifications of fruit flies and other Dip-tera to researchers in our Commonwealth member countries, and to help pro-vide training both at home and abroad. It was while helping to teach fruit fly identification in Malaysia with Dick Drew and Mar-lene Elson-Harris from Brisbane that we identified the need for a basic manual for the identification of the pest groups worldwide. The book Fruit Flies of Eco-nomic Significance was thus born over a beer by a swimming pool one even-ing in Kuala Lumpur! Mar-lene had been doing some fantastic work on the iden-tification of the larvae of fruit flies and it seemed natural to integrate that in-to the book, along with bio-nomic data gathered from the abstracting sources published by CAB. The book was published in 1992 and sold well enough to re-quire reprinting in 1994.

At about the same time the potential use of computers to assist the identification

process began to inter-est me and I started to develop identification software which I called CABIKEY. By that time CAB had become CAB International (CABI) and somewhat tongue in cheek I al-ways claimed that CABIKEY was an acro-nym for Computer Aided Biological Iden-tification Key!

Is there anything that you wanted to achieve/complete but you did not manage for any reasons?

It is unfortunate that in the 1997-9 period CABI found it neces-sary to pull the plug on most of their scien-tific services which re-sulted in staff losing jobs. The Windows version of CABIKEY had been used as the basis of CD-ROM pub-lications in 1997 and the time was right for handing the whole thing over to a profes-sional programmer to add a user friendly da-ta input system, so that the system could be marketed to other taxonomists. The rival LUCID system had

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been given a professional front end and sells well but the CABIKEY con-cept inevitably fell by the wayside.

However, I was still able to put data into CABIKEY (under license from CABI) and that enabled me to secure short-term contracts to carry on de-veloping fruit fly identification aids as well as more general taxonomic research. Most of my subsequent work was carried out under the um-brella of the African Fruit Fly Initia-tive organized by ICIPE in Nairobi. Most of my funding came from the US, either as US-AID or USDA pro-jects organized by Bob Wharton at Texas A&M University and adminis-tered by the NHM. The most notable achievement was a monographic re-vision of the African species of Dacus.

Where do you and your family like to go on vacation?

The short answer to that is anywhere with rugged or mountainous scen-ery! Our son went to a College in Sheffield and then settled there. Sheffield is on the edge of the Peak District National Park and my wife and I soon fell in love with the area too. Early in 2014 we moved to the spa town of Buxton, which is sur-rounded by the Peak District and has been a resort since Roman times. For the first 15 months we did not travel anywhere and the everlasting vacation continues!

Where was your best foreign desti-nation, and where else would you like to go?

I’d hate to single out any one destination as I was privileged to travel to so many places! Before I joined CABI I’d already visited a few areas in the Neotropics and the Hawaiian Islands. With CABI I got to travel to several Asian countries and Aus-tralasia, and after CABI Kenya, South Afri-ca and to the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Reunion. For the combina-tion of biology and scenery the isolated is-lands of Reunion and the Hawaiian Is-lands were of particular interest. If it were possible to somehow skip the long journey I’d certainly visit those areas again but in practice I suspect the Scottish Highlands or perhaps the Alps will be the limit from now on!

Last words…

I’d like to mention the huge debt of grati-tude that I owe to the NHM who made all the former CABI entomologists Scientific Associates of their museum. They provid-ed us with a base from which to continue research provided we had the funds. We each faced the stark choice of trying to carry on in entomology or looking else-where and I actually got as far as being asked for interview by an IT company. Luckily funding for a project came through a few days later and with the sup-port of my wife Joy the decision was made to stick with my chosen profession! Those first projects were Dutch funded under the Fauna Malesiana umbrella and one was to produce a CABIKEY system for vector spe-cies of mosquitos. The African fruit fly projects I mentioned earlier soon fol-lowed.

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Cheslavo A. Korytkowski Guillén

(1941-2015)

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W e regret to inform our

community of tephriti-

dologists that our col-

league and friend, Dr.

Cheslavo Korytkowski, passed away on

May 12, 2015. Cheslavo was born in

Arequipa, Peru in 1941. He studied

Agronomy (1961-64) and a Master of

Science degree (1970-72) at the Agrar-

ian National University in Peru. Later,

in 1982, he was awarded a Doctor of

Science (Entomology) degree at the

University of San Marcos.

He was interested in both taxonomy

and pest management. His research

papers were on taxonomy of Diptera

(Lonchaieidae, Ulidiiadae, Richardi-

idae, Agromyzidae and Tephritidae),

and the biology, biological control

and pest management of fruit flies in

Central America.

He was well known for the many

training courses in fruit fly identifi-

cation that he organized and led.

He was a professor at the Entomolo-

gy Program of the University of Pan-

ama. He was always willing to col-

laborate and advise fruit fly pro-

grams.

In recent years, he was a close advi-

sor to the Ministry of Agricultural

Development (MIDA) in Panama,

and the Inter-regional Organization

on Plant and Animal Heath (OIRSA)

in Central America.

He will be remembered for his deep

knowledge, and his friendship.

Pablo Liedo & Allen L. Norrbom

Dr. Cheslavo Korytkowski, sadly passed away on May 12, 2015

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Sexual behaviour and male volatile compounds in wild and mass-reared strains

of the Mexican fruit fly Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Diptera:Tephritidae) held under different colony

management regimes

Carlos Felipe Bosa

Department of Tropical Entomology El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Tapchula Chiapas, Mexico

The Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) is a species-specific, non-polluting pest control method, and has been used ef-fectively in many area-wide fruit fly control programs. This technique has been used for the control of the Mexi-can fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens, in Mexico and Southern USA for more than 30 years. Mass-reared sterilized males are released into the field where they compete against wild males for matings with receptive wild females in order to transfer the sperm-carrying dominant lethal mutations for inducing sterility in wild females. Periodically, the fitness of mass-reared sterilized males to compete with wild males should be tested with respect to, for example, escaping predation, male competitiveness, survival under extreme weather conditions, and chemical cue composition during sex-ual activity. As an alternative method for mass-reared strain improvement, selection of best-performing males as parents for mass rearing has been proposed, by which selection for mating and sur-vival increased mating competitive-

ness. A number of studies have

demonstrated the improvement of male mating competitiveness from hy-bridization (e.g. crossing wild males and mass-reared females). The present research had two aims. The first was More..

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nomic research is also important for further re-

search on ecology, population monitoring and de-

veloping market access strategies. The identifica-

tion of similar visually species of fruit flies is a diffi-

cult task for non-taxonomic scientists.

Acknowledging this importance, the Pakistan Mu-

seum of Natural History (PMNH) organized a 1-day

training workshop on “Taxonomy and Biology of

Fruit Flies” on 25th February, 2015. The Chairman

of the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), Prof. Dr.

Muhammad Ashraf, was the main guest of the

event. Sixteen participants belonging to the re-

search, extension, and plant protection wings of the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sind provinces,

scientists of the National Agricultural Research

Council (NARC), the Federal Plant Protection De-

partment, CABI Biosciences and Ph.D. students of

different universities attended the training work-

shop. Dr. Khalid Mahmood, Curator, PMNH, gave a

presentation on identification, distribution and host

range of fruit fly species recorded from Pakistan.

Dr. Ihsan ul Haq, S.S.O., NARC, gave a presentation

on “Current approaches for management of fruit

flies”.

In their comments after the workshop, the partici-

pants highly appreciated the effort of PMNH for

holding this workshop. They also suggested con-

ducting this workshop on an annual basis, and that

it should be conducted over 2 to 3 days.

T here are nearly fifteen species

of fruit flies in Pakistan.

Three species, B. zonata, B. cucur-

bitae and B. dorsalis, are severe pests of all

commercially grown fruits and vegetables

such as guava, mango, orange, banana and

melon.

They attack the fruits at the ripening stage,

when the growers had already made all the

investments on crop production and are ready

to harvest the fruit.

The presence of pest fruit flies in Pakistan has

resulted in quarantine restrictions being im-

posed by importing countries. Some countries

like Iran, USA and Turkey have denied all ac-

cess to their markets for fruits produced in

Pakistan, while other countries (Australia,

Japan and EU) require that expensive disin-

festation treatments be carried out in Paki-

stan before shipment. Similarly, quarantine

regulations in Pakistan have to be imposed to

limit the spread of fruit flies to other areas,

and to save indigenous horticulture from ex-

otic species of fruit flies like Ceratitis capitata

and Bactrocera minax, etc..

Correctly identifying these pests is the fore-

most step for formulating effective and envi-

ronmentally safe pest management tools and

realistic quarantine decision-making. Taxo-

One-day training workshop on

the Biology and Taxonomy of Fruit Flies of Pakistan

Dr. Khalid Mahmood, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Why not send us a short

story about your lab or

your research project?

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Contributions received before 30th

September 2015 will be posted on

the next FFN issue (#32).

ARPPIS-DAAD doctoral

scholarships available for study at icipe, Kenya

3­year doctoral training in insect sciences for development

Deadline: 6th June 2015

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), Kenya, in partnership with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) In-

Country/In-Region Scholarships Programme and African university partners, requests applications for doctoral research scholarships in the African Re-

gional Postgraduate Programme in Insect Sciences (ARPPIS).

Twelve DAAD-ARPPIS PhD scholarships are available in 2015.

The PhD programme will commence in September 2015.

Follow the link for more information on the eligibility criteria

Ph.D. OPPORTUNITY

Kemo BADJI (Ph.D.) Agronomist, Entomologist, Quantitative Ecology Scientist Projet Lutte contre les Mouches des Fruits-CEDEAO CRSA, Sotuba, Bamako, MALI. CelPh:+223 83 32 65 69

Dr. Kémo BADJI has recently been nominated as Head of the surveillance component of the Fruit Fly Control Project in West Africa. ----

Dr. Kémo BADJI is a research entomologist

at the Plant Protection Directorate (DPV) of

the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural

Equipment of the Republic of Sénégal, in

Dakar. He is recognized for his research in

the areas of quantitative ecology, biological

control, mass rearing, and IPM of fruit flies

with over 10 co-authored scientific articles.

Dr. Badji completed his B.Sc. in plant pro-

tection in 2005 at the Agro-Hydro-Metéo

Center’s Major Training Program in Niamey, Niger, and his MSc. in Agriculture and plant protection (major Ento-

mopathology) at the University of Thiès (UT), Senegal. Dr. Badji was co-supervised by researchers at both UT and the

Department of Entomology of Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg VA, USA. He then

attended the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali

in collaboration with Virginia Tech where he completed his Ph.D. in 2014 in quanti-

tative ecology and applied biology and has since continued in this stream. .

Dr. Badji worked as a Research Assistant from 1996 to 2005 at the Rearing Re-

search Unit in DPV, where base funding increased from $150,000 to $400,000

through a series of fruit fly suppression trials funded by USAID and DANIDA. He

has been called upon frequently for advice by the Plant Health Inspection and Quar-

antine Service, National Agricultural Extension and USAID funded NGOS. Dr.

Badji’s research collaborations extend over 15 years with organisations including

the Office of International Research and Development,Virginia Tech, USDA/ARS

Daniel K. Inouye US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo HI, DMU-

University of Aarhus, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Foreign Ag-

ricultural Service of the US Embassy in Dakar, Senegal.

Dr. Badji has presented over 50 scientific papers and participated in workshops worldwide. Dr. Badji was awarded over

$100,000 from the Senegal Government to supplement DPV with funds for fruit fly suppression programs. From 2006

to 2014, he coordinated multiple successful fruit fly national projects in Senegal. In October 2014, he was selected as a

fruit fly population surveillance expert in the ECOWAS Community Fruit Fly Suppression and Control project. In 2015,

he moved to Bamako for the new responsibilities. Dr. Badji’s new role with respect to the ECOWAS’s 16 countries is to

organize a national and regional monitoring system for fruit fly populations, monitor fruit fly impact on fruits, especially

mango, monitor ongoing control measures efficacy and provide information and alerts to consumers and growers on

emerging pests of mango in West Africa.

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Dr. Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar

Bihar Agricultural University Sabour—Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

Dr. Prabhakar recently joined the Department of Entomology, Bihar

Agricultural University as Assistant Professor-cum-Junior Scientist.

His Masters and Doctoral research studies were on fruit fly-bacteria

symbiosis, and fruit fly biodiversity on the Indian

subcontinent, conducted at CSK Himachal Pradesh

Agricultural University, Palampur, Himachal Pra-

desh, India. Before joining his present position, he

worked as a post-doctoral researcher on different as-

pects of fruit fly ecology and management and on

other insect pests in different national and internation-

al laboratories, viz. the Indian Council Agricultural

Research Complex for Eastern Region, Research

Centre, Jharkhand, India; the International Crops Re-

search Institute for Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT),

Patancheru, India; and the Nuclear Agriculture and

Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research

Centre, Trombay, India. He is also a recipient of

prestigious Dr KS Krishnan Research Fellowship

awarded by the President of India on recommendation

of the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences

(BRNS), DAE, Govt of India, to work on peaceful

uses of radiation technology in insect pest manage-

ment.

His research interests include

fruit fly systematics, manage-

ment and quarantine, insect-

bacterial symbiosis, phylogeog-

raphy, plant protection in a

changing climate scenario, use

of radiation in insect pest man-

agement, incompatible insect

technique (IIT), and area-wide

IPM of insect pests. Bihar Agri University by night

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Mohammad Shadmany

MSc Entomology Charles Sturt University (CSU) Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Centre of Excellence for Plant and Animal Health Sydney, Australia

In March this year, Mohammad Shadmany joined Charles Sturt University (CSU)

as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Olivia Reynolds (NSW Department of Primary

Industries) and Prof Geoff Gurr (CSU). Originally heralding from Iran, Mohammad completed

his Masters in Entomology at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) where he focused on insecticide

resistance and molecular systematics of the sweet potato whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius).

Now based at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Sydney, Australia (a Centre of Ex-

cellence for Plant and

Animal Health), Mo-

hammad’s PhD will

look at fundamental

and applied aspects for

improving sterile male

Queensland fruit fly,

Bactrocera tryoni

(Froggatt) fitness and

performance using

male lures.

It is anticipated that

Mohammad’s research

could lead to signifi-

cant cost reductions in

current Sterile Insect

Technique practices.

Project title: Semio-

chemical-mediated

enhancement of the

Sterile Insect Tech-

nique for Queens-

land fruit fly Bac-

trocera tryoni

(Froggatt).

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The Field Guide to Pests, Beneficials,

Diseases and Disorders of Vegetables

in northern Australia

T his field guide provides easy and quick access to text and images to assist with the iden-

tification of pests and disease symptoms in the field. Correct identification of pests, ben-

eficials, diseases and

disorders is important in helping

to minimise crop damage and

when considering management

options. The guide provides de-

scriptions, life cycles and biology,

monitoring and pest manage-

ment.

This field guide is an invaluable

resource for primary producers,

researchers, extension staff and

students.

It is available in both English and

Vietnamese printed versions or

can be downloaded from North-

ern Territory Department of Pri-

mary Industry and Fisheries

(DPIF) site.

The information has been de-

rived from more than 20 years

research and extension experi-

ence with commercial vegetable

crops by staff of Entomology,

Plant Pathology and Horticul-

ture, within the Plant Industries

Group, Northern Territory De-

partment of Primary Industry

and Fisheries.

www.dpif.nt.gov.au

2014

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3rd MEETING OF THE

TEPHRITID WORKERS OF

EUROPE, AFRICA & THE MID-

DLE EAST (TEAM 2016 ), 11-

14 APRIL 2016, STELLEN-

BOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA.

9th MEETING OF THE TEPHRITID

WORKERS OF THE WESTERN HEMI-

SPHERE (TWWH 2016), OCTOBER 2016,

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.

1st MEETING OF THE TEPHRITID

WORKERS OF ASIA, AUSTRALIA, AND

OCEANIA. (TAAO 2016) , 15-18 AUGUST

2016, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA.

10th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON

FRUIT FLY OF ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE

(ISFFEI 2018), TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS,

MEXICO.

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