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) aethriobasis (Hardy) Dacus aethriobasis Hardy, 1973: 30 . Holotype male in KUB. Bactrocera (Bactrocera) aethriobasis – Norrbom et al., 1998: 87 . Material examined . – BHUTAN : 2 males ( 13 May.2000 ) , 1 male ( 20 May.2000 ), 3 males ( 27 May.2000 ), 3 males ( 2 Jun.2000 ), Phuentsholing, coll. S. Thapa; 1 male , Gelephu, Purana Bastey, 26 Feb.2005 , coll. Maha Prasad & Karma Namgyel. All specimens attracted to methyl eugenol. Specimens in NPPC and QDPI . Diagnosis . – A large species; face fulvous with a pair of medium sized oval black spots; scutum entirely red-brown, postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow, mesopleural stripe reaching anterior npl . seta dorsally, broad parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae ending 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 with narrow red-brown basal band; legs with all segments entirely fulvous; wings with cells bc and c colourless and entirely devoid of microtrichia, narrow pale fuscous costal band confluent with R 2+3 and extremely narrow and very pale fuscous beyond apex of R 2+3 around costal margin of wing to end just beyond extremity of R 4+5 , cubital streak reduced to pale fuscous within cell cup, supernumerary lobe weak; abdominal terga III-V either entirely dark fuscous to black or dark fuscous to black with dark red-brown either side of a medial longitudinal black band from centre of tergum IV to cover anterior 3/4 of tergum V, a pair of oval black shining spots on tergum V. Attractant. – Methyl eugenol. Distribution. – Thailand . New record for lower altitudes of Bhutan . Hosts. – No known record. Remarks . – A non pest species previously recorded only from Thailand . It is readily distinguished by the following characters – scutum red-brown, broad parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae, wings with a very narrow costal band and cubital streak absent, abdominal terga III-V black.