A new species of genus Oedaspis Loew and new distribution records of Acidiostigma Hendel & Goniurellia Hendel from India (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Author
Singh, Maneesh Pal
Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Author
Sneha, Sharma
Indian Agriculture Research Institute (NIBSM), Chhattisgarh, India.
Author
Sharma, Isha
0000-0003-4713-6274
Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Himachal Pradesh, India.
sharmaisha0590@gmail.com
Author
Gupta, Divender
0009-0001-8352-9035
Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Himachal Pradesh, India.
divenderg@gmail.com
Author
Hancock, David Lawrence
Yew Tree Court, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 2 5 QA, United Kingdom.
Author
Prabhakar, Chandra Shekhar
Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar.
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-10-01
5514
5
469
480
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5514.5.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5514.5.4
1175-5326
13914801
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Goniurellia lacerata
(
Becker, 1913
)
(
Figure 6A, B, E & F
)
Trupanea lacerata
Becker, 1913: 644
.
Diagnosis:
A small sized (
2.97 mm
) dark greyish species with well developed chaetotaxy on head and thorax. Three frontal setae and 2 orbital setae, posterior orbital stubby white and shorter than anterior, ocellar setae crossed forming X-pattern, outer vertical stubby white and postocular thick stubby white. Thorax dark grayish, setose, with 3 darker lyrate vittae, full complement of thoracic setae except lacking apical scutellar setae. Entire scutum and abdomen covered in whitish setulae. All legs yellowish fulvous. Wings (
2.75 mm
) hyaline except reticulate pattern on wing apex. Dark black spot present in cell r2+3 confluent with vein R
4+5
, circular oval spot present in cell r4+5 beside 6 irregular shaped hyaline spots (
Figure 6B
). Apical Y-shaped fork present in cell r4+5 and outer arms confluent with vein R
4+5
and M. Abdomen black except lateral margins of tergites I and II brownish. Narrow brownish band present on posterior end of tergites II–V, 5–6 long setae present on posterior margin of tergite V.
Genitalia:
Epandrium elongated oval in posterior view, epandrium higher than proctiger, lateral surstylus longer than median surstylus, latter with dark spiny prensisetae, aedeagus
0.29 mm
long excluding glans (
0.12 mm
) and apical lobe (
1.28 mm
), the latter unusually elongate (
Figure 6E & F
).
Material examined:
1 ♂
,
on
Bidens pilosa
L.,
INDIA
,
Himachal Pradesh
,
Solan
,
Nauni
,
30°51’47” N
77°10’7”.
5.vi.2024
, Maneesh Leg. at
Zoological Survey of India
(
HARC
, Solan)
.
Host
plant:
Not recorded in the region (possibly
Pulicaria
sp.
).
Distribution:
Egypt
:
Sinai
(
Freidberg & Kugler, 1989
),
Iran
(
Mohamadzade Namin
et al.
, 2018
), and
India
:
Himachal Pradesh
(
first record
).