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Olive fruit fly

Bactrocera oleae (Rossi, 1790)

Status not recordedinsects

The olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) is a species in the family Tephritidae, order Diptera.

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Quick facts about the olive fruit fly

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
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 olive fruit fly live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the olive fruit fly as introduced in 3 countries.

  1. Canary Islands
  2. Nepal
  3. United States

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 olive 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 olive fruit fly classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderDiptera
  5. familyTephritidae
  6. genusBactrocera
  7. SpeciesBactrocera oleae (Rossi, 1790)

Synonyms Bactrocera oleae, Dacus oleae, Dacus oleae var. asiatica, Dacus oleae var. flaviventris, Dacus oleae var. funesta, Musca oleae, Oscinis oleae

Other names and names in other languages (1)
  • OlijfvliegDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the olive fruit fly

Other species in the same genus Bactrocera.

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Common questions

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Is the olive fruit fly an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the olive fruit fly as introduced in 3 countries: Canary Islands, Nepal and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the olive fruit fly?

The olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) belongs to the family Tephritidae in the order Diptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/olive-fruit-fly

MLA

“Olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/olive-fruit-fly.

BibTeX
@misc{olive_fruit_fly_2026,
  title = {Olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/olive-fruit-fly},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}