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Two species of true fruit flies (taxonomic family  Tephritidae ) are considered pests of fruit and vegetable production in Argentina: the cosmopolitan Mediterranean fruit fly ( Ceratitis capitata  Wiedemann) and the new world South American fruit fly ( Anastrepha fraterculus  Wiedemann). The distribution of these two species in Argentina overlaps north of the capital, Buenos Aires. Regarding the control of these two pests, the varied geographical fruit producing regions in Argentina are in different fly control situations. One part is under a programme using the sterile insect technique (SIT) for the eradication of  C. capitata , because  A. fraterculus  is not present in this area. The application of the SIT to control  C. capitata  north of the present line with the possibility of  A. fraterculus  occupying the niche left vacant by  C. capitata  becomes a cause of much concern. Only initial steps have been taken to investigate the genetics and biology of  A. fraterculus . Consequently, only fragmentary information has been recorded in the literature regarding the use of SIT to control this species. For these reasons, the research to develop a SIT protocol to control  A. fraterculus  is greatly needed. In recent years, research groups have been building a network in Argentina in order to address particular aspects of the development of the SIT for  Anastrepha fraterculus . The problems being addressed by these groups include improvement of artificial diets, facilitation of insect mass rearing, radiation doses and conditions for insect sterilisation, basic knowledge supporting the development of males-only strains, reduction of male maturation time to facilitate releases, identification and isolation of chemical communication signals, and a good deal of population genetic studies. This paper is the product of a concerted effort to gather all this knowledge scattered in numerous and often hard-to-access reports and papers and summarize their basic conclusions in a single publication.

Genetics and biology of Anastrepha fraterculus: research supporting the use of the sterile insect technique (SIT) to control this pest in Argentina