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TO OUR READERS

Welcome to the latest issue of TAAO Newsletter! I would like to give special thanks to them who contrib-

uted in this issue. Hopefully all of you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed arranging it together! Moreover,

we have valuable messages from the new TAAO Steering Committee (SC) Chair, Dr. Alvin Hee; and the

immediate past Chair of TAAO Steering Committee (SC) and Editorial Committee (EC), Dr. Mark Schutze

which make this issue enriched.

Within this issue you will find in details report on successfully completed event of first TAAO Symposium,

15-18 August 2016 in Malaysia. Here, I invite you to enjoy reading the four new records of Bamboo-shoot

flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini, Gastrozonini) from Bangladesh; regional seminar and workshop

news from Indonesia and other contributions. Also, one of our colleagues from Pakistan visited the IPCL,

Seibersdorf for checking fruit flies morphologically for their identity. In addition, you will come to know

about a well-known and renowned Emeritus Professor Dr. Hoi-Sen Yong from Malaysia.

In this issue, the new TAAO Steering Committee (SC) and Editorial Committee (EC) are being presented

which have been elected in the first TAAO Symposium, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 17 August

2016.

Finally, we need more reports on tephritids, so please feel free to contribute your opinions about what is hap-

pening in your community and share your thoughts on how to get better the TAAO Newsletter.

Thanks and best wishes.

M. Hasanuzzaman

TAAO Editorial Committee Chair

Contents: Page No.

Message from the TAAO Steering Committee (SC) Chair 2

Message from the Immediate Past Chair of TAAO SC and EC 3

A Successful Event – First TAAO Symposium, Malaysia, August 15-18, 2016 4-6

A Preliminary Survey of Bamboo-Shoot Flies…………... Four New Records from Bangladesh 7-8

Regional Seminar and Workshop on Fruit Fly, Indonesia, October 8, 2016 9-10

Dr. Khalid Mahmood’s Visit to IPCL, Seibersdorf, Austria 11

KNOW YOUR COLLEAGUE: Professor Emeritus Dr. Hoi-Sen Yong, Malaysia 12-13

Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember 14

New TAAO Steering Committee (SC) 15

New TAAO Editorial Committee (EC) 16

NEWSLETTER

Issue 04

October 2016

TAAO Newsletter Issue 4 (October 2016) 2

Alvin Hee

Department of Biology

Faculty of Science

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

[email protected]

Dear TAAOers,

Greetings from Malaysia!

It is of great honour and privilege to appointed as the new chair of TAAO as well a member of the Interna-

tional Fruit Fly Steering Committee. With this responsibility, there is much to be done especially in the push

for the goals of TAAO to be achieved i.e. Broaden interaction and collaboration among tephritid workers

from the region; enhance capacity to develop and deploy effective diagnostic and management programmes;

provide a centralised forum for researchers, agencies, and regulators to access and obtain specific informa-

tion or to contact regional tephritid workers; foster collegiality among tephritid workers in the region and

educate the wider community about the biological importance of tephritids and their impact on regional hor-

ticulture.

I also take pleasure in announcing that ever since initiatives started in reinvigorating TAAO leading to her

first symposium this year, our first term TAAO SC members especially Mark Schutze has been a prime

mover in keeping all of us together. Thanks, Mark for sharing your infectious enthusiasm for TAAO with

me! Whilst Mark as the outgoing TAAO Chair has left a hard act to follow, I must also thank Profs Tony

Clarke and Keng-Hong Tan for being instrumental in getting the initiatives started. I am also humbled by the

support of TAAOers especially during our first symposium in August for next meeting that we are looking

forward in 4 years time. These are obvious indicators that certainly TAAO has a bright future ahead. Not-

withstanding that some of us have or will be retiring from our careers, together we are bound by our love for

work that we do and loving what we do for our work on the flies in this region!

I certainly look forward to working with the new TAAO SC as well as everyone in this big TAAO family!

With best wishes and regards,

Alvin Hee

Message from the TAAO Steering Committee (SC) Chair


Mark Schutze

School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences

Queensland University of Technology

GPO Box 2434

Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia

[email protected]

Dear TAAOers,

It gives me great pleasure to write a few words for our latest Newsletter, especially to congratulate all those

involved in the reinvigoration of TAAO since 2014, culminating in our Inaugural Symposium held in Malay-

sia earlier this year. Special acknowledgement must go to the TAAO Steering and Editorial Committees, and

especially Organising Chair (and his team!) of the Symposium, Alvin Hee, for a magnificent event at which

90 delegates attended from more than 20 countries. Alvin’s tireless work in bringing this Symposium to-

gether gives me great confidence as he leads TAAO into the future as new Chair of the Steering Committee.

Thanks also to those that have supported TAAO and the Symposium, especially the IAEA (thanks Rui!), and

to those departing the S.C. with whom it’s been a pleasure to work with, these being Phil Taylor, Kenji Tsu-

ruta, Bonifacio Cayabyab and Suksom Chinvinijkul; while welcoming new SC members Nguyen Thi Thanh

Hien from Vietnam, M. Hasanuzzaman from Bangladesh, and Sunyanee Srikachar of Thailand.

I have also stepped back as Chair of the Editorial Committee, which is now in the very capable hands of M.

Hasanuzzaman (new Chair of the E.C.) and his vibrant group of E.C. members, Farzana Yesmin, Deane

Woruba, Chandra Prabhakar, Yongcheng Dong, and Hamish Patrick. I look forward to seeing them foster

greater engagement among regional tephritid workers in the years ahead.

I’m sure those who joined us in Putrajaya for the TAAO Symposium will agree that the future for TAAO is

bright and that we have many exciting years ahead. I encourage all to consider getting involved with TAAO

now and into the future, as we look towards the next Symposium in 2020; the venue of which is to be de-

cided from among a number of nominated countries (stay tuned!). Finally, a sincere thanks to all for the last

couple of years; it has been my esteemed pleasure to be a part of this wonderful community.

All the best.

Mark Schutze (outgoing Chair) - Oct 2016

Message from the Immediate Past Chair of TAAO SC and EC

mailto:[email protected]


Alvin Hee


Faculty of Science

Universiti Putra Malaysia


[email protected]

Time has passed very fast! It has been more than two

months since we bade farewell after the end of our

first TAAO meeting in the Palm Garden Hotel. To

everyone who have attended the First Symposium of

TAAO, I hope you have sweet memories of the meet-

ing. Without your participation and support, we would

not have been able to organize it! Thus, as the new

TAAO SC Chair, I have included the email addresses

of everyone who participated in the Malaysia meeting.

In this note, I will like to briefly present some reports

from our recent TAAO 2016 symposium:

Number of participants: 90

Countries represented: 23

Major sponsors: FAO/IAEA, TWAS, Australian De-

partment of Agriculture and Water Resources, PBCRC

Australia, QUT and CABI.

Four keynote lectures plus 47 talks, 26 poster presen-

tations from 8 sessions were successfully held. With

the generosity of CABI and a personal donation of

books by Dr Mark Schutze, we were able to acknowl-

edge the involvement of graduate students as well as

our participants who have been truly enthusiastic in

sending their best fruit fly photographs for the photog-

raphy competition. Dr Sandeep Singh has been instru-

mental in getting the competition organized during the

symposium. So, here are all the winners:

Photography Competition Winners:

1. Poh Teck Ong (Malaysia)

2. Suk Ling Wee (Malaysia)

Best Student Poster Presenters:

1. Maurizio Benelli (Australia)

2. Tehereh Moadeli (Australia)

Best Student Oral Presenters:

1. Rabiatul Addawiyah Shamshir (Malaysia)

2. Deane Woruba (Australia)

New TAAO Steering Committee (SC) (2016-2020):

1. Alvin Hee (Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)

(Chair)

2. Mark Schutze (Queensland University of Technol-

ogy, Australia) (Immediate Past Chair)

3. Zhihong Li (China Agricultural University, China)

4. Sujinda Thanaphum (Mahidol University, Thailand)

5. Sandeep Singh (Punjab Agricultural University, In-

dia)

6. Tati Suryati Syamsudin (Institut Teknologi Band-

ung, Indonesia)

7. Suk-Ling Wee (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,

Malaysia)

8. Anastasia Priscilla Kawi (National Agriculture

Quarantine & Inspection Authority, Papua New

Guinea)

9. Sunyanee Srikachar (Department of Agriculture,

Bangkok, Thailand)

10. M. Hasanuzzaman (Bangladesh Atomic Energy

Commission, Bangladesh)

11. Nguyen Thi Thanh Hien (Plant Protection Re-

search Institute, Vietnam)

A Successful Event– First TAAO Symposium, Malaysia, August 15 - 18, 2016


New TAAO Editorial Committee (EC) (2016-2020):

1. M. Hasanuzzaman (Bangladesh Atomic Energy

Commission, Bangladesh) (Chair)

2. Farzana Yesmin (Bangladesh Atomic Energy Com-

mission, Bangladesh)

3. Hamish Patrick (Lincoln University, New Zealand)

4. Deane Woruba (University of Western Sydney,

Australia)

5. Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar (Bihar Agricultural

University, India)

6. Yongcheng Dong (Huazhong Agricultural Univer-

sity, China)

In addition, the TAAO SC will also like to record their

highest appreciation to Prof. Keng Hong Tan

(Malaysia) who had earlier served as one of the earli-

est SC member. His advice and views are still continu-

ally sought after and we have been fortunate to have

him participating in our symposium. We also thank

our fellow outgoing SC members for their significant

contribution to TAAO especially in the planning of

the TAAO 2016 meeting:

1. Phil Taylor (Macquarie University, Australia)

2. Suksom Chinvinijkul (Department of Agricultural

Extension, Thailand)

3. Kenji Tsurata (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries

and Forestry, Japan)

4. Bonifacio Cayabyab (University of the Philippines,

Philippines)

The year 2016 will be remembered that all three major

regional fruit fly networks (TEAM, TAAO and

TWWH) would have had their meetings completed.

Dr Pia Addison (South Africa) (TEAM 2016 Organiz-

ing Chair) and Dr Marc De Meyer (Belgium) (TEAM

Chair) who were in our Malaysia meeting successfully

organized the 3rd TEAM meeting in Stellenbosch, Af-

rica from 11-14 April (http://teamfly2016.co.za/) and

very recently the TWWH meeting from 16-21 October

(http://9twwh.senasa.gob.ar/en) organized by Dr Pablo

Liedo (Mexico) (TWWH Chair).

Whilst we wait to know the venue of the next TAAO

symposium that will held in 4 years time, let us con-

tinue to engage in discussions and foster new collabo-

rations as we live up to the goals of TAAO. Dr Mark

Schutze has done an excellent job as the Chair of the

Figure 1. Photo of First TAAO Symposium, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 15-18 August, 2016


TAAO SC and EC, and his act will be hard to follow!

I do, however hope that with your continual support,

together we scale new heights in hoisting the banner

of TAAO.

I am also happy to inform you all that finally, we have

been able to put those hundreds of pictures that were

taken during the Malaysia meeting plus the pro-

gramme and symposium book in PDF that you can

download from the symposium webpage:

www.taao2016.upm.edu.my

We hope you will enjoy looking at the pictures and

recall the happy memories of our first meeting!

Finally a sweet note of thanks to my Vice Chancellor

of Universiti Putra Malaysia Prof. Datin Paduka Dr.

Aini Ideris for her trust and confident in me putting up

our first TAAO meeting. It wasn't easy but worth

every effort that we have all put into it!

With best wishes and regards.

Alvin

TAAO SC Chair

Figure 2. Photo of best student oral & poster presenters and photography competition winners with TAAO

Symposium organizers. (From left: Rabiatul Addawiyah Shamshir ; Poh Teck Ong; Suk Ling Wee; Tehereh

Moadeli; Alvin Hee; Maurizio Benelli; Mark Schutze; Deane Woruba; Rui Cardoso Pereira; Sandeep Singh)


A Preliminary Survey of Bamboo-Shoot Flies, (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini,

Gastrozonini) with Four New Records from Bangladesh

1,*Mahfuza Khan, 1M. Abdul Bari, 2Mahmudul

Hossain, 3Damir Kovac, 4Amnon Freidberg, 5Jane

Royer and 6David L. Hancock

1Insect Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food and

Radiation Biology (IFRB), Atomic Energy Research

Establishment (AERE), Ganakbari, Savar, Dhaka-

1349, Bangladesh.

*E-mail: [email protected] 2Radiation Entomology and Acarology Division,

IFRB, AERE, Ganakbari, Savar, Dhaka

3Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage

25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

5 Plant Biosecurity and Product Integrity Biosecurity,

Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries,

Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia 6 8/3 McPherson Close, Edge Hill, Cairns,

Queensland 4870, Australia

A preliminary survey of bamboo-shoot flies (Diptera:

Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini, Gastrozonini) of

Bangladesh was conducted at National Botanical

Garden (NBG), Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh during

April to August, 2015.

National Botanical Garden is covering an area of

about 84 ha of land located at Mirpur, about 10 km

from Dhaka city. The garden is divided into 57

sections, and is managed by the government through

the Department of Forestry, Ministry of Environment

and Forests. At Section 48 there is a bamboo garden

containing 20 bamboo species from different parts of

the oriental region (Bangladesh, China, Thailand)

viz., Bambusa arundinacea (Kata Bash), Bambusa

ventricisa (Ghoti Bash), Bambusa chinensis (China

Bash), Dendrocalamus giganteus (Vudum Bash),

Melocanna abaccifera (Muli Bash), etc. (according to

NBG leaflet, 2014). Two groups of Tephritidae are

known to be associated with bamboo (Poaceae) in the

Oriental region: Gastrozonini (Dacinae) and

Acanthonevrini (Phytalmiinae).

Figure 1. Images of bamboo-shoot flies from Bangladesh, A. Felderimyia gombakensis Hancock and Drew,

B. Rioxoptilona dunlopi (van der Wulp), C. Rioxoptilona vaga (Wiedemann), D. Acroceratitis distincta (Zia),

E. Acroceratitis ceratitina (Bezzi), and F. Gastrozona soror (Schiner). Photo courtesy: Mahfuza Khan


During the survey six different bamboo-shoot fly spe-

cies viz., Felderimyia gombakensis Hancock and

Drew, Rioxoptilona dunlopi (van der Wulp) and Ri-

oxoptilona vaga (Wiedemann) under Acanthonevrini

(Tephritidae: Phythalmiinae), Acroceratitis distincta

(Zia), Acroceratitis ceratitina (Bezzi), and Gastrozona

soror (Schiner) under Gastrozonini (Tephritidae:

Dacinae) were detected and collected from the bam-

boo garden on 5th, 11th and 17th August, 2015. Four of

these species, F. gombakensis, R. vaga, A. distincta,

and G. soror are new records for Bangladesh. On each

collection day young bamboo shoots were broken to

attract and capture flies. Some species were collected

from bamboo clumps/stand by hand picking during 10

am to 2 pm. Most of the flies were collected by care-

fully placing glass test tubes and using polythene bags

over the flies. The bamboo-shoot flies were then taken

to the Insect Biotechnology Division, Institute of Food

and Radiation Biology, Atomic Energy Research Es-

tablishment laboratory. Each fly was then photo-

graphed under a dissecting microscope, and different

taxonomic features matched with those from pub-

lished bamboo- shoot fly records, especially with

those from Bangladesh. To confirm the identification,

photographs and pinned or alcohol specimens pre-

served separately in 100% ethanol in Eppendorf tubes

were sent to Damir Kovac (Senckenberg Research In-

stitute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am

Main, Germany). Photographs of bamboo-shoot flies,

viz, R. dunlopi, R. vaga, A. ceratitina and G. Soror

were also sent to David Hancock, Cairns, Queensland,

Australia for confirmation of fly identity. Further mo-

lecular and biological studies on collected species are

in progress.


“Regional Seminar and Workshop on Fruit Fly: Identification and Control”

Indonesia Entomological Association- October 8, 2016

Tati Suryati Syamsudin

School of Life Sciences and Technology

Institut Teknologi Bandung

Jl. Ganesa No. 10 Bandung, Indonesia

[email protected]

On October 8, 2016 we conducted a Regional Semi-

nar and Workshop on "FRUIT FLY : IDENTIFICA-

TION AND CONTROL". This event was organized

by Indonesia Entomological Association

(Perhimpunan Entomologi Indonesia = PEI) Bandung

Section/Branch.

Morning program started by a series of lecture, each

speaker had 15 minutes. The topics were :

1. Ecology and Systematic by Prof. Tati Suryati

Syamsudin (School of Life Sciences and Technology

- Institut Teknologi Bandung)

2. Fruit Fly Control by Mr. Agus Susanto (Faculty of

Agriculture, Padjadjaran University - Bandung)

3. Molecular Identification of Fruit Fly by Mr. Suputa

(Gadjah Mada University - UGM)

After short discussions we continued to "Applied

Section". We invited our colleagues from several in-

stitutions for sharing their experience in fruit fly man-

agement. Here the topics were,

1. Activity of horticulture protection in technical re-

quirement for sanitary and phytosanitari (SPS) -

WTO by Ms. Cahyaniati, (Ministry of Agriculture).

2. Implementation on fruit fly control of horticulture

area in West Java by Mr. Juju Rukman, (Institute of

Crops Protection & Horticulture West Java province).

3. Fruit fly control by Vapor Heat Treatment - by Mr.

Wayan Murdita, (Pest Forecasting Institute – Minis-

try of Agriculture)

4. Radiation application for fruit fly control - by Ms.

Indah Arastuti Nasution (Center for Isotope and Ra-

diation Application).

Figure 1. Participant at Practical works on Fruit Fly

Identification at the School of Life Science and Tech-

nology, October 8, 2016

Figure 2. Participant and instructor (Prof Tati) on

Fruit Fly Identification

Figure 3. A group of participant and Mr. Yusuf –

explain fruit fly rearing methods



Figure 4. Group photo of participant and organizer –

after closing

In the workshop section we had practical works. Par-

ticipants interested on the workshop was divided into

two groups: 1) Fruit Fly Identification and (2) Rear-

ing Technique for Fruit Fly.

63 participants involved in this event : 42 students, 21

researchers and lecturers from State University, Pri-

vate University, Ministry of Agriculture, Center for

Isotope & Radiation Applications and Private Com-

pany. They came from different city in West Java and

also from Sumatra Island.


Dr. Khalid Mahmood’s Visit to IPCL, Seibersdorf, Austria

Khalid Mahmood

Zoological Sciences Division

Pakistan Museum of Natural History

Islamabad, Pakistan

[email protected]

Dr. Khalid Mahmood, Curator, Zoological Sciences

Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History,

Islamabad visited Insect Pest Control Laboratory

(IPCL) / IAEA / FAO, Seibersdorf, Austria to identify

the pest species of genus Bactrocera being reared in

IPCL, from 3-14 October, 2016.

Figure 1. Fruit fly rearing in Insect Pest Control Labo-

ratory (IPCL), Seibersdorf, Austria

FAO/IAEA/IPCL maintains the culture of three pest

species B. carambolae, B. dorsalis and B. kandiensis

in the Oriental fruit fly species complex and other im-

portant tephritid pest species. During this visit differ-

ent populations of B. dorsalis, B. carambolae, B.

kandiensis, B. correcta, B. tryoni, B. zonata, B. cucur-

bitae, B. tau and B. oleae were morphologically

checked for their identity.


KNOW YOUR COLLEAGUE: Professor Emeritus Dr. Hoi-Sen Yong

Hoi-Sen Yong

Professor Emeritus in Genetics and Zoology

Institute of Biological Sciences

University of Malaya, Malaysia

[email protected]

Hoi-Sen Yong is Professor Emeritus in Genetics and

Zoology at the Institute of Biological Sciences,

University of Malaya. He is a Foundation Fellow and

Senior Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.

He has published over 300 scientific papers and

authored several books, as well as edited several

journals, academic books and proceedings. His PhD

thesis (1968) was on genetics and systematics of

murid rodents. He was among the pioneers

worldwide to adopt a holistic and innovative

approach to solving problems in biosystematics,

employing both classical and modern methods. He

discovered for the first time in the world the

phenomenon of X-monosomy (presence of a single X

-chromosome instead of the normal two in female

individuals) in the house rat Rattus rattus (published

in NATURE, 1971) and in wild Norway rat Rattus

norvegicus (1989). Unlike XO humans (with a single

X-chromosome, known as Turner’s syndrome) and

larger mammals that are infertile, XO female rats are

fertile (due to short gestation and short maturation

period).

Yong started to study tephritid fruit flies in the late

1970s. His group studied the diversity, host plants,

male attractants from local plants, life history,

parasitoids, genetics and systematics. He discovered

new records of fruit fly species, new host fruits as

well as new species for Malaysia. Pardalaspinus

yongi (Hancock & Drew, 1995) was named in honor

of him.

Among his publications on tephritid fruit flies are: (1)

Garcinia cowa (Guttiferae): host plant for fruit fly

Photo: Hoi-Sen Yong

Bactrocera propinqua (Tephritidae), 1992 in which

he clarified that the correct name for the host plant

Garcinia laueana as hitherto reported in the literature

should be Garcinia bancana as there is no Garcinia

species by the name of 'laueana' (the written script

for bancana was incorrectly transcribed as laueana);

(2) Host fruit preferences in two sympatric taxa of the

Bactrocera dorsalis complex (Insecta: Diptera:

Tephritidae), 1994; (3) Genetic differentiation and

relationships in five taxa of the Bactrocera dorsalis

complex (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae), 1995 in

which Bactrocera dorsalis and Bactrocera papayae

were shown to be genetically very similar and they

produced fertile F1 hybrids under laboratory

condition; (4) Multigene phylogeography of

Bactrocera caudata (Insecta: Tephritidae): distinct

genetic lineages in northern and southerm

hemispheres, 2015; (5) Differentiating sibling species

of Zeugodacus caudatus (Insecta: Tephritidae) by

complete mitochondrial genome, 2016; and (6)

Complete mitochondrial genome of three Bactrocera

fruit flies of subgenus Bactrocera (Diptera:

Tephritidae) and their phylogenetic implications,

2016.



Yong has recently extended his study to microbiomes

of fruit flies to determine diversity as well as vertical

and horizontal transmission. He continues to study the

genomics and other aspects of fruit fly biology.

Yong had received several prestigious awards such as

the Malaysia Toray Science Foundation First Science

and Technology Award (1994), National Science

Award (1995), MPKSN Prize for Advancement/

Promotion of Public Understanding in Science and

Technology (1996), Professor Emeritus in Genetics

and Zoology, University of Malaya (2007), and the

Merdeka Award (2010) for Outstanding Scholastic

Achievement.

Some Publications:

Yong H.S. (1992) Garcinia cowa (Guttiferae): host

plant for fruit fly Bactrocera propinqua (Tephritidae).

Nature Malaysiana 17: 66-67.

Yong H.S. (1994) Host fruit preferences in two

sympatric taxa of the Bactrocera dorsalis complex

(Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae). In: Current Research

in Tropical Fruit Flies and Their Management (ed.

H.S. Yong and S.G. Khoo) pp 1-8. Kuala Lumpur:

The Working Group on Malaysian Fruit Flies.

Yong H.S. (1995) Genetic differentiation and

relationships in five taxa of the Bactrocera dorsalis

complex (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae). Bull. Ent.

Res. 85: 431-435.

Yong H-S, Lim P-E, Tan J, Song S-L, Suana IW,

Eamsobhana P (2015) Multigene phylogeography of

Bactrocera caudata (Insecta: Tephritidae): distinct

genetic lineages in northern and southerm

hemispheres. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129455. doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0129455

Yong H-S, Song S-L, Lim P-E, Eamsobhana P, Suana

IW (2016) Differentiating sibling species of

Zeugodacus caudatus (Insecta: Tephritidae) by

complete mitochondrial genome. Genetica DOI

10.1007/s10709-016-9919-9

Yong H-S, Song S-L, Lim P-E, Eamsobhana P, Suana

IW (2016) Complete mitochondrial genome of three

Bactrocera fruit flies of subgenus Bactrocera

(Diptera: Tephritidae) and their phylogenetic

implications. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148201.


UPCOMING EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER

3rd FAO/IAEA International Conference on Area-

Wide Management of Insect Pests: Integrating the

sterile insect and related nuclear and other tech-

niques, 22– 26 May, 2017, Vienna, Austria (http://

www-pub.iaea.org/iaeameetings/50813/Third-FAO-

IAEA-Internat ional-Conference-on-Area-wide-

Management-of-Insect-Pests-Integrating-the-Sterile-

Insect-and-Related-Nuclear-and-Other-Techniques)

FAO/IAEA Interregional Training Course on The

Use of the Sterile Insect and Related Techniques for

the Integrated Area-wide Management of Insect Pests

(under Interregional TC Project INT5155). 31 July –

25 August 2017, Metapa de Dominguez, Chiapas,

Mexico and Antigua / El Pino, Guatemala.

1st International Conference on Biological and Envi-

ronmental Sciences & Applications (ICBESA-2017)

23-25 March, 2017, Luxor, Egypt.

(http://confs.naturalspublishing.com/icbesa2017/

page.asp?pgid=142)

Entomology 2017, Novevber 5-8 2017, Denver, CO,

USA. Organizer: Entomological Society of America

(ESA) (http://entsoc.org/events/annual-meeting)

9th International Congress on Dipterology, 25-30

November 2018, Stellenbosch University, South

Africa.

(http://www.nadsdiptera.org/ICD/ICD9_home.htm)

10th International Symposium on Fruit Fly of Eco-

nomic Importance (ISFFEI 2018), 23-27 April, 2018,

Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico

19th International Plant Protection Congress (IPPC

2019), 10-14 November, 2019, Hyderabad, Telan-

gana, India (http://www.ippc2019.icrisat.org/)

Meetings and Activities Related to International Or-

ganization for Biological and Integrated Control

(IOBC). http://www.iobc-wprs.org/events/)

Call for Submission of Research Proposals for a new

FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project on Integra-

tion of the SIT with Biocontrol for Greenhouse Insect

Pest Management. Last date of research project pro-

posal submission: 31 January, 2017 (http://www-

naweb.iaea.org/nafa/ipc/crp/new-crps-ipc.html)

Tephritid Workers

Database (TWD)

Tephritid Workers Database link:

http://nucleus. iaea.org/sites/naipc/twd/Pages/

default.aspx

Please keep your TWD profile updated to stay con-

nected with the whole tephritid fruit fly community

in the world.


FIRST ROW L-R

Alvin Hee (Chair)


Faculty of Science Universiti Putra Malaysia


[email protected]

Mark Schutze

(Immediate Past Chair of SC and EC)

School of Earth, Environmental & Biological Sciences

Queensland University of Technology

GPO Box 2434

Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia

[email protected]

Zhihong Li

College of Agronomy and Biotechnology

China Agricultural University

Beijing, China

[email protected]

Tati Suryati Syamsudin

School of Life Sciences & Technology

Institut Teknologi Bandung

Jl. Ganesa No. 10 Bandung, Indonesia

[email protected]

Sujinda Thanaphum

Fruit Fly Molecular Genetic Laboratory

Department of Biotechnology

Faculty of Science

Mahidol University, Ratchathewe

Bangkok, Thailand

[email protected]

Annastasia Kawi

National Agriculture Quarantine Inspection Authority

P O Box 817, Kokopo, East New Britain Province Papua New Guinea

[email protected]

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Suk-Ling Wee

School of Environmental & Natural Resource Sciences

Faculty of Science & Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan

Malaysia

[email protected]

Sandeep Singh

Department of Fruit Science

Punjab Agricultural University

Ludhiana 141004

Punjab

India

[email protected]

Sunyanee Srikachar

Plant Protection Research and Development Office

Department of Agriculture

Bangkok

Thailand.

[email protected]

Nguyen Thi Thanh Hien

Entomology Division

Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI) Duc Thang ward, Bac Tu Liem district

Ha Noi city

Vietnam

[email protected]

M. Hasanuzzaman

Institute of Food and Radiation Biology

Atomic Energy Research Establishment

Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission

GPO Box- 3787

Dhaka-1000

Bangladesh [email protected]

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TAAO Editorial Committee (EC)

M. Hasanuzzaman (Chair)




GPO Box- 3787, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

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Farzana Yesmin




GPO Box- 3787, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

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Hamish Patrick

Bio-Protection Research Centre

Burns 616, P O Box 85084

Lincoln University

Lincoln 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand

[email protected]

Deane Woruba

NSW Department of Primary Industries

Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute

Woodbridge Road, Menangle 2568 NSW

Australia

[email protected]

Chandra Shekhar Prabhakar

Department of Entomology,

Veer Kunwar Singh College of Agriculture,

(Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour)

Dumraon-802136, Buxar

Bihar, India

[email protected]

Yongcheng Dong

College of Plant Science and Technology

Huazhong Agricultural University,

430070, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

[email protected]







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