Records Of Dacine Fruit Flies And New Species Of Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) In Bhutan Author Drew, R. A. I. Author Romig, M. C. Author Dorji, C. text Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2007 2007-02-28 55 1 1 21 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5331152 2345-7600 5331152 Bactrocera (Bactrocera) vishnu Drew and Hancock Bactrocera (Bactrocera) vishnu Drew & Hancock, 1994: 65 ; Norrbom et al., 1998: 96 . Holotype male in BMNH. Material examined . – BHUTAN : 1 male , Rimchu 1, 24 May.2000 , coll. C. Dorji ; 1 male , Rimchu 1, 14 Jun.2000 , coll. Nado ; 1 male , Rimchu 1, 21 Jun.2000 , coll. Nado et al.; 1 male , Rimchu 2, 10 May.2000 , coll. B.S. Fletcher ; 1 male , Rimchu 2, 16 Aug.2000 , coll. C. Dorji ; 1 male , Lingmethang , 700 m , mango tree, 9 Jun.2001 , coll. Brian Fletcher. All specimens attracted to cue lure. Specimens in NPPC and QDPI . Diagnosis . – Face fulvous with a pair of large oval black spots; scutum almost entirely black, postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow, mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl . seta dorsally, a pair of moderately broad parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae ending at or just behind ia . seta, medial postsutural vitta absent; setae: sc . 2; prsc . 2; ia . 1; p.sa. 1; a.sa . 1; mpl . 1; npl . 2; scp . 4; scutellum yellow except for narrow black basal band; legs with femora fulvous except for a large oval black spot on outer apical surfaces of fore femora, fore and mid tibiae fulvous tending dark fuscous basally, hind tibiae dark fuscous, tarsi with all segments entirely fulvous; wings with cells bc and c colourless, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, narrow fuscous costal band just overlapping R 2+3 and remaining narrow to end just beyond extremity of R 4+5 , a narrow fuscous cubital streak confined to cell cup, supernumerary lobe weak; abdominal terga III-V dark orange-brown except for dull black across anterior 1/2 of tergum III and expanding to cover lateral margins and anterolateral corners of terga IV and V dark fuscous to dull black. Attractant. – Cue lure. Distribution. – Southern India . New record for Bhutan . Hosts. – No known record. Remarks . – This species is a non pest member of the dorsalis complex and is distinct in having a large oval preapical black spot on the fore femora, a narrow medial longitudinal dark band on abdominal terga III-V and fuscous shining spots on tergum V (see Drew & Hancock, 1994).