New species and host plant records for Neotropical Rhagoletis Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Author
Rodriguez, Pedro Alexander
Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA), C. I. Tibaitatá km 14 vía Bogotá Mosquera, Colombia.
Author
Norrbom, Allen L.
0000-0002-5854-089X
Systematic EntomologyLaboratory, USDA, ARS, c / oNational Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012. allen. norrbom @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5854 - 089 X & Jardín Botánico de Bogotá José Celestino Mutis, Calle 63 # 68 - 95 Bogotá D. C.
allen.norrbom@usda.gov
Author
Peñaranda, Guadalupe Caicedo Emilio Arévalo
Author
Balseiro, Francisco
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Rhagoletis solanophaga
Hernández-Ortiz & Frías
Rhagoletis solanophaga
Hernández-Ortiz & Frías 2000: 16
(
Holotype
♂
(Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa):
Mexico
:
Veracruz
:
Xalapa
,
Jardin Bothnico
1280 m
,
17 Oct 1990
,
R. Pérez
,
ex larva in fruits of
Solanum appendiculatum
);
Rull
et al
. 2016: 631
.
Distribution.
This species has been recorded from
Costa Rica
and
México
(
Veracruz
) (
Hernández-Ortiz & Frías 2000
,
Rull
et al
. 2016
). Additional specimens from
Bolivia
and
Costa Rica
are reported here.
Specimens examined.
BOLIVIA
:
La Paz
:
28 km
. N of
Caranavi
,
Cultura
,
15.68075°S
67.49669°W
, emerged
30 Nov 2001
reared ex fruit of
Lycianthes pseudolycioides
(01-Bol-24) collected
14 Apr 2001
,
A. L. Norrbom
&
J. Peñaranda
,
5♂
1♀
(
USNM
,
ANCB
USNMENT00216972–76
,
USNMENT00745917
)
.
COSTA RICA
:
Cartago
:
A. C. A. C. Amistad
,
Monumento Nacional Guayabo
, LN 217400 570000,
1100 m
,
Jul 1994
,
G. Fonseca
,
1♂
(
MNCR
INBioCRI001888034)
.
Guanacaste
:
Liberia
, Parque Nac. Guanacaste,
Estación Mengo
, LN 322740 375198,
1000 m
, bosque primario; manual (red, libre),
6–30 Apr 1988
,
Espinoza
,
1♂
(
MNCR
INBioCRI0004040113); Macizo Miravalles, Estación Cabro Muco, LN 299769 411243,
1100 m
, trampa de luz mercurio,
28 Mar–3 Apr 2003
,
M. A. Zumbado
,
1♀
(
MNCR
INBioCRI0003720583)
.
Biology.
Solanum appendiculatum
Dunal
and
Lycianthes sideroxyloides
(Schltdl.) Bitter
were previously reported as host plants for
Rhagoletis solanophaga
(
Hernández-Ortiz & Frías 2000
,
Rull
et al
. 2016
). In
Bolivia
, this species was reared from fruit of
Lycianthes pauciflora
(Vahl) Bitter
(=
Lycianthes pseudolycioides
(Chod. & Hassl.) Bitter
).
Comments.
The Costa Rican and Bolivian specimens examined closely match the original description of
R. solanophaga
, except the brown lateral spot on the scutellum just reaches the basal scutellar seta, one of the Costa Rican and the Bolivian specimens have more extensive posterior brown markings on the scutum, with narrow vittae on the intra-alar and sometimes the dorsocentral lines extending anteriorly to the dorsocentral seta or almost to the transverse suture, in some Bolivian specimens there is a second narrow connection between the discal and subapical bands, and the Costa Rican specimens have a medial brown area on the mid femur, whereas it is mostly brown in the Bolivian specimens (versus entirely yellow in the
type
specimens; the hind femur and tibia are brown except basally and apically in all of the specimens).
Key.
The following modifications to the key of
Hernández-Ortiz & Frías (2000)
are provided to include
R. antioquiensis
:
3(1’) Scutum reddish to orange; cell c mostly hyaline, only narrowly brown basally; subbasal and discal bands completely separated along entire length; hyaline fascia between anterior and posterior apical bands usually extended anteriorly to at least middle of width of cell r
2+3
..................................................................................... 3A
- Scutum black; cell c brown proximally and distally; subbasal and discal bands usually connected; hyaline fascia between anterior and posterior apical bands usually not extended anteriorly to middle of width of cell r 2+3...........................4
3A Scutellum mostly white, distinctly paler than reddish-yellow scutum; scutum with weak pollinosity (microtrichial) pattern of four stripes; discal and subapical bands broadly joined in cell m
4
; subscutellum and mediotergite wholly black...............................................................................
R. solanophaga
Hernández-Ortiz & Frías
- Scutellum orange, concolorous with scutum; scutum without discernable pollinosity (microtrichial) pattern (
Fig. 4
); discal and subapical bands separated along entire length (
Fig. 5
); subscutellum and mediotergite completely yellow-orange without black markings..............................................................
R. antioquiensis
Rodriguez & Norrbom