African Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae); New Species and Data, with Particular Reference to the Tel Aviv University Collection
Author
White, Ian M.
Author
Goodger, Kim F. M.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2127
1
49
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274925
534e3106-2d37-4f90-98c7-fe3fab66dc7b
1175-5326
274925
Dacus
(
Ambitidacus
)
brevistriga
Walker
Dacus brevistriga
Walker, 1861
: 322
;
lectotype
des.
Hardy 1959
: 166
Ambitidacus brevistriga
:
Munro 1984
: 120
Material.
TANZANIA
:
1 male
, Mbeya,
35km
. S., Rt.A345.
2200m
.,
1.ix.1996
, A. Freidberg, (
TAU
)
Remarks.
First record for
Tanzania
. However, the specimen is not typical of the species, differing from South African specimens in scutum and abdomen colour pattern; scutum with a pair of closely approximated black stripes, one along acrostichal line and the other along dorsocentral line; terga I
–
V black laterally, broadly black on terga III
–
IV. The well developed pecten and yellow postpronotal lobe, clearly indicate that this specimen is not simply an aberrant
D. katonae
Bezzi
; which has a vestigial pecten, black scutum and abdomen, and fuscous to black postpronotal lobe.