THE BIOLOGY OF NONFRUGIVOROUS TEPHRITID FRUIT-FLIES

This review is the first comprehensive treatment of the biology of non frugivorous fruit flies of the family Tephritidae. Feeding habits of d estructive and useful species, morphology of immature stages, and hypo theses regarding structural homology and the evolutionary biology of n onfrugivorous tephritids are reviewed, including zoogeography and theo ries involving resource heterogeneity, guild structure, resource parti tioning, resource utilization, facultative niche exploitation, extrins ic and intrinsic factors, host associations, seasonal distribution and phenology, aggregative and circumnatal life history strategies, volti nism, diapause, aestivation, oviposition site, clutch size, and supern umerary oviposition.