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) verbascifoliae Drew & Hancock Bactrocera (Bactrocera) verbascifoliae Drew & Hancock, 1994: 64 ; Norrbom et al., 1998: 96 . Holotype female in BMNH. Material examined . – BHUTAN : 3 males , Phuentsholing , 10 km , 10 Jun.2000 , coll. S. Thapa ; 1 male , Phuentsholing , 13 May.2000 , coll. S. Thapa PQI ; 1 male , Rimchu , 17 May.2001 , coll. R . Drew & M. Romig ; 2 males , Samdrup Jongkhar District , 15 Nov.2004 , coll. S. Wangdi. All specimens attracted to methyl eugenol. Specimens in NPPC and QDPI . Diagnosis . – Face fulvous with a pair of medium size circular black spots; scutum with base colour black, postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow, mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl . seta dorsally, a pair of narrow parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae ending at 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 except for a narrow black basal band; legs with femora entirely fulvous, fore tibiae pale fuscous, mid tibiae fulvous tending pale fuscous basally, hind tibiae pale fuscous; wings with cells bc and c colourless, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, a narrow fuscous costal band confluent with or slightly overlapping R 2+3 and remaining narrow around costal margin to end beyond extremity of R 4+5 (in some specimens there is a slight swelling around apex of R 4+5 ), a narrow fuscous cubital streak ending before wing margin, supernumerary lobe weak; abdominal terga III-V orange-brown with a narrow transverse black band across anterior margin of tergum III and expanding to cover lateral margins where it becomes dark fuscous, a narrow medial longitudinal dark fuscous to black band over all three terga, anterolateral corners of terga IV and V dark fuscous to black. Attractant. – Methyl eugenol. Distribution. – India , Thailand . New Record for Bhutan . Hosts. – Species of wild Solanum including Solanum verbascifolium (Family Solanaceae ) (see Drew & Hancock, 1994; Allwood et al., 1999 ). Remarks . – This species is a non pest member of the dorsalis complex with a specialised host plant association. It is similar to B. dorsalis (Hendel) in general colour patterns but differs in having narrow lateral postsutural vittae and a short aculeus on the female ovipositor (see Drew & Hancock, 1994).