Zeugodacus cucurbitae(DACUCU)
Distribution details in Japan (Ryukyu Archipelago)
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated
2025: Absent, pest eradicated
Occasional outbreaks have been detected but subsequently eradicated.
EPPO Reporting Service (2025/055) : Reported in Okinawa Island in 2024, discovered in official surveys.
-----NPPO of Japan (2025) informed the EPPO Secretariat this record is Zeugodacus tau not Zeugodacus cucurbitae. Zeugodacus cucurbitae is reported as 'Absent, pest eradicated'.
EPPO Reporting Service (2025/055) : Reported in Okinawa Island in 2024, discovered in official surveys.
-----NPPO of Japan (2025) informed the EPPO Secretariat this record is Zeugodacus tau not Zeugodacus cucurbitae. Zeugodacus cucurbitae is reported as 'Absent, pest eradicated'.
* Anon. (1987) Okinawa Prefectural Fruit fly Eradication Project Office, Naha, Japan, 28 pp.
------- Eradicated from the Miyako Islands in 1987.
* Iwahashi, O. (1977) Researches on Population Ecology 19 (1), 87-98.
------- Eradicated from Kume Island.
* IPPC website. Official Pest Reports – Japan (JPN-04/5 of 2016-08-17) Eradication of Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Oriental fruit flies) in Amami Oshima Island, Japan. https://www.ippc.int/en/countries/japan/pestreports/2016/08/eradication-of-bactrocera-dorsalis-species-complex-oriental-fruit-flies-in-amami-oshima-island-japan/
------- Eradicated from Amami Oshima Island (detected in September 2015 - declared eradicated in August 2016).
* Iwaizumi, R.; Sawaki, M.; Kobayashi, K.; Maeda, C.; Toyokawa, Z.; Ito, M.; Kawakami, T.; Matsui, M. (1991) Research Bulletin of the Plant Protection Service, Japan No. 27, 75-78.
* NPPO of Japan (2025-04).
* Okinawa Prefecture (2025) Control measures for Zeugodacus cucurbitae. https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/shigoto/nogyo/1010700/1018771/1031557.html
* Okinawa Prefecture (2025) Reiwa 6 Special Report on Pest Outbreak Forecast No. 2. https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/_res/projects/default_project/_page_/001/031/557/r6_tokushu2.pdf
* Sonda, M. (1972) Research Bulletin of the Plant Protection Service Japan No. 10, 28-32.
------- Eradicated from the Miyako Islands in 1987.
* Iwahashi, O. (1977) Researches on Population Ecology 19 (1), 87-98.
------- Eradicated from Kume Island.
* IPPC website. Official Pest Reports – Japan (JPN-04/5 of 2016-08-17) Eradication of Bactrocera dorsalis species complex (Oriental fruit flies) in Amami Oshima Island, Japan. https://www.ippc.int/en/countries/japan/pestreports/2016/08/eradication-of-bactrocera-dorsalis-species-complex-oriental-fruit-flies-in-amami-oshima-island-japan/
------- Eradicated from Amami Oshima Island (detected in September 2015 - declared eradicated in August 2016).
* Iwaizumi, R.; Sawaki, M.; Kobayashi, K.; Maeda, C.; Toyokawa, Z.; Ito, M.; Kawakami, T.; Matsui, M. (1991) Research Bulletin of the Plant Protection Service, Japan No. 27, 75-78.
* NPPO of Japan (2025-04).
* Okinawa Prefecture (2025) Control measures for Zeugodacus cucurbitae. https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/shigoto/nogyo/1010700/1018771/1031557.html
* Okinawa Prefecture (2025) Reiwa 6 Special Report on Pest Outbreak Forecast No. 2. https://www.pref.okinawa.jp/_res/projects/default_project/_page_/001/031/557/r6_tokushu2.pdf
* Sonda, M. (1972) Research Bulletin of the Plant Protection Service Japan No. 10, 28-32.