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Melon fruit fly

Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett, 1899)

Status not recordedinsects

The melon fruit fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae) is a species in the family Tephritidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the melon fruit fly

Weight
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Length
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Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the melon fruit fly live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the melon fruit fly as introduced in 11 countries, and flagged as invasive in 10 of them.

  1. Chinainvasive
  2. Côte d’Ivoireinvasive
  3. Guineainvasive
  4. Maliinvasive
  5. Nigerinvasive
  6. Nigeriainvasive
  7. Senegalinvasive
  8. Seychellesinvasive
  9. Somaliainvasive
  10. Togoinvasive
  11. United Arab Emirates

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the melon fruit fly endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the melon fruit fly classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyTephritidae
  6. genusZeugodacus
  7. SpeciesZeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett, 1899)

Synonyms Bactrocera cucurbitae, Chaetodacus cucurbitae, Dacus aureus, Dacus cucurbitae, Dacus cucurbitat, Dacus yuiliensis, Strumeta cucurbitae

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the melon fruit fly

Other species in the same genus Zeugodacus.

Tau fly

Zeugodacus tau

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the melon fruit fly an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the melon fruit fly as invasive in 10 countries, including China, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali and Niger. It lists it as introduced in 11 in all.

What kind of animal is the melon fruit fly?

The melon fruit fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae) belongs to the family Tephritidae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Melon fruit fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/melon-fruit-fly

MLA

“Melon fruit fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/melon-fruit-fly.

BibTeX
@misc{melon_fruit_fly_2026,
  title = {Melon fruit fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/melon-fruit-fly},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}