New species and new records of fruit flies of tribe Acanthonevrini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Phytalmiinae) from India Author David, K. J. ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India. Author Hancock, D. L. 9 Yew Tree Court, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 2 5 QA, United Kingdom. Author Salini, S. 0000-0003-1234-8330 ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India. shalinis.nilavu@gmail.com Author Ningthoujam, Kennedy College of Post-Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU (Imphal), Umiam- 793103, Meghalaya, India. Author Khemrajji, Hatwar Nikhil Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Author Abhishek, V. Department of Entomology, Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga- 577204, Karnataka, India. Author Gracy, R. G. 0000-0002-6764-5167 ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India. gandhi_gracy@yahoo.co.in Author Sushil, S. N. 0000-0002-5718-1629 ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India. ushil@icar.gov.in text Zootaxa 2024 2024-09-09 5506 3 301 321 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1 1175-5326 13747000 F4D3B7AC-9C1E-4D25-ABD4-FED3B295547B Erectovena desperata (Hering) ( Figures 39–45 ) Rioxoptilona desperata Hering, 1939: 176 . Erectovena desperata (Hering) : Hancock 2011: 119 . Material examined: 1 ♀ , INDIA : Meghalaya , Umiam, College of P.G. Studies , 07.ii.2023 , Kennedy Ningthoujam ( NIM ) . FIGURES 32−38 . Tritaeniopteron punctatipleurum (Senior-White) . 32, epandrium and surstyli (lateral view); 33, epandrium and surstyli (posterior view); 34, glans of phallus; 35, aculeus; 36, aculeus tip; 37, spicules on distal end of eversible membrane; 38, spermathecae. FIGURE 39 . Habitus (lateral view) of female of Erectovena desperata (Hering) . FIGURES 40−45 . Postabdominal structures of female of Erectovena desperata (Hering) . 40, ovipositor; 41, spicules on proximal end of eversible membrane; 42, spicules on distal end of eversible membrane; 43, aculeus; 44, aculeus tip; 45, spermatheca. Diagnosis : Frons fulvous with 2 pairs of frontal and orbital setae, ocellar seta vestigial, medial and lateral vertical setae and postocellar setae well developed; scape, pedicel and flagellomere slightly fuscous, arista plumose, combined length of pedicel plus flagellomere as long as the face; face fulvous without any markings, genal seta present, postocular setae black and prominent. Scutum with well developed chaetotaxy, fulvous with two pairs of short, brown vittae and prescutellar, conical patch; anepisternum with two lateral brown vittae extending from postpronotal lobe to base of the wing; scutellum yellow with six scutellar setae. Wing dark brown with base of pterostigma fulvous, conical hyaline indentation in cell r 1 and cell m, hyaline spots in cell r 4+5 and dm. Abdomen fulvous with lateral black/brown patches on tergites 1–6 with a pair of submedian spots on tergites 2–5, tergite 6 with a median brown patch. Oviscape dark brown ( 1.56 mm ), eversible membrane slightly shorter than oviscape ( 1.41 mm ) with spicules on distal end of eversible membrane dome shaped with 7–8 conical projections, aculeus ( 0.98 mm ) shorter than eversible membrane, with a blunt apex and well developed preapical setae (2 elongate pairs and two short pairs); spermathecae brown, spherical with an apical projection.