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Looking back at year, I would like to thank all our collaborators in many
parts of the world for their support and significant inputs to
our joint activities ciation to headquarters in Vienna and at the Insect Pest Control L
boratory in Seibersdorf, Austria for their dedication and
competence in developing and transferring to FAO and
IAEA Member States more environment therefore more
In 2015 we concluded the six Project (CRP) on “
es of Tephritid Pests to Overcome Constraints to SIT A
plication and International Trade”. The objec CRP was to undertake targeted research into the systema ics and diagnostics of taxonomically challenging fruit fly
groups of economic importance. Close to 50 researchers from over 20 countries participated in the CRP, conducting coordinated, mu an integrative taxonomic framework, cryptic species co plexes of major tephritid pests. One of the scientific outputs of the CRP was the accurate alignment of some biological
species with taxonomic names. The res these controversial issues has important applied implic tions for FAO and IAEA Member States, both in overco
ing technical constraints to the application of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) against pest fruit flies and in facil tating international agricultural trade.
A Special Issue in the peer tp://zookeys.pensoft.net/browse_journal_issue_documen
ts.php?issue_id=763 and review articles covering the progress made during the
CRP on the four fruit fly complexes studied: Anastrepha fraterculus their geographic and ecological distributions in Latin America were defined. The morphotypes can be considered as distinct biological species on the basis of differences in
karyotype, sexual incompatibility, post cuticular hydrocarbons, pheromones, and molecular pr files. Discriminative taxonomic tools using linear and ge
metric morphometrics of both adult and larval morphology were developed that allow the characterisation of the di ferent morphotypes. |
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