Diversity of the genus Anastrepha spp., as part of the natural heritage present in the south of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.9733142331084

• Palavras-chave: Anastrepha spp., Ecología de poblaciones, Diversidad

• Keywords: Anastrepha spp., Population ecology, Diversity

• Abstract:

  Due to its geography, the state of Campeche in Mexico belonging to the Yucatan peninsula in the humid tropics and together with its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, determines the ideal conditions for the proliferation of a great diversity of animal and plant species, constituting, as well as one more territory of the Mexican Republic that make the country one of the mega diverse in the world. In this diversity of flora and fauna of the State of Campeche, fruit flies of the genus Anastrepha were found, some considered as a phytosanitary problem with economic losses in global, national and local fruit growing in tropical regions, and other species that do not constitute Economic disadvantage, but ecological, impacting the populations of the pest species in the environmental balance, both carry out their biological cycle in both commercial and wild fruits of the place. The objective of this study is to make known the existing diversity of flies of the genus Anastrepha and their relationship with their hosts, which constitutes an important component in the natural heritage of the place. To date, the following flies of economic and non-economic importance have been found on various fruits sampled over 10 years: A. ludens (Loew), 1873; A. obliqua (Macquart), 1835; A. striata (Schiner), 1868; A. serpentina (Wiedemann), 1830; A. fraterculus (Wiedemann), 1830; A. zuelaniae (Stone), 1942; A. distinta (Greene), 1934; A. ampliata (Hernández), 1990 and A. Hamata (Loew), 1873.