Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar

First Global Host Report and New Distribution Record of Bactrocera penecorrecta Drew (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Bihar, India

Amit Kumar, Maneesh Pal Singh, Gautam Kunal, Mukesh Kumar Sinha & Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2024

This study showed that brinjal, Solanum melongena Linnaeus is the first global host of the fruit fly, Bactrocera penecorrecta Drew (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Bihar, North India. Earlier report of B. penecorrecta was from Kerala, South India. In the present investigation, B. pene...