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Pests > Pests Entities > Insects > Flies > Fruit fly > Mango fly (Ceratitis), Annona, Kenya
October 2010. Images of a fruit fly from custard apple (Annona reticulata) sent from Kenya.
It was identified as Ceratitis cosyra which is commonly known as the mango fruit fly. There is a lot of information about this fruit fly species available on the Internet.
