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
Group
Fuscinervis
Dacus
(
Dacus
)
fuscinervis
Malloch
Leptoxyda fuscinervis
Malloch, 1932
: 301
Dacus
(
Dacus
)
doryloides
Munro, 1939a
: 32
Material.
KENYA
:
1 male
, Rift Valley, Ol Pejeta Conservancy,
1825m
.,
0o2.62’N
,
36o58.53’E
,
1
–
14.vii.2006
, malaise trap, R.S. Copeland (
BMNH
).
TANZANIA
:
1 Female
, Same, Rt.B1,
8
–
16.ix.1992
, A. Freidberg, (
TAU
).
Remarks.
These specimens represents the first record of the species from East Africa although they differ from southern African specimens in lacking anterior supra-alar setae (variant included in revised key; revised couplet 137), and in having the anepisternal stripe extended onto the katepisternum.
White (2006)
noted in coded description data (provided on CD-ROM) that the aculeus “appears laterally compressed” but did not transcribe this annotation to the main paper. A specimen from
Tanzania
appears to be the same species and has distinct lateral compression, and bilateral symmetry in the lateral view, i.e. the aculeus displays what
White (2006)
called “torsion”. Re-examination of the
holotype
of
D. doryloides
(BMNH) confirms that it is similar (the
holotype
of
L. fuscinervis
, USNM, was re-examined by A.L. Norrbom, pers comm., but its aculeus was insufficiently exposed). Aculeus “torsion” is otherwise only known in subgenera
Didacus
(
Mulgens
and
Insolitus
groups) and
Lophodacus
(
Brevis
group), and appears to have evolved separately in each case, and there is no reason to revise the subgeneric position of this species. An unusual feature of the Tanzanian specimen is that it apparently has a pair of dorsocentral setae, the left better developed than the right, and each placed slightly forward of the level of the posterior supra-alar seta (see Introduction).