Trypetidae, Otitidae, Helomyzidae, And Clusiidae of Guam (Diptera)
Author
Mailoch, J. R.
Whashington, D. C.
text
1942
1942-06-01
Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Honolulu, Hawaii
Insects of Guam I
201
210
book chapter
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5163626
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Dacus
Fabricius
,
Syst. Antliatorum
,
272
,
1805
.
This genus has been divided into a number of genera or subgenera, according to the views of various workers on the family, and the species before me falls in the subgenus
Bactroccra.
The only character distinguishing the concept from
Chactodacus
is the presence of one or two oblique dark fasciae on the disk of the wing in addition to the one over the anal cell.
In my paper dealing with this family [Insects of
Samoa
6(7)
:253-266, 1931], I presented a key to the then known Pacific island species of this group, and in that key the
Guam
species runs clown to
D. distinctus
Malloch, but it is readily distinguished therefrom by the wing markings and other characters noted below.