Systematic revision of the fruit fly genus Carpophthoromyia Austen (Diptera, Tephritidae)
Author
Meyer, Marc De
text
Zootaxa
2006
1235
1
48
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.172780
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172780
C
.
tritea
(
Walker, 1849
)
(
Figs. 12
,
15
,
33
)
Trypeta tritea
Walker, 1849
: 1034
.
Carpophthoromyia tritea
:
Austen 1910
,
Bezzi 1918
, Cogan & Munro 1980.
Diagnosis
Arista distinctly plumose; two frontals; scutum without transverse bands; postpronotum brownish; scutellum with three apical spots, not visible in dorsal view; anterior margin of wing with one indentation in cell c; Sband and inverted Vband separate.
Description
Head. Antennal segments brown. Arista distinctly plumose, longest rays longer than width of first flagellomere. Frons yellow; upper third (area in between orbitals to upper margin ocellar triangle) sometimes darker yellow. Two frontals placed on oblique line, with anterior frontal 2 times as far from the inner eye margin than posterior frontal; two orbitals. Face white to yellow, gena and sometimes antennal groove brown; near antennal base darker yellow to brown patches.
Thorax. Scutum shining blackbrown, along transverse suture more yellowbrown; black setulae, without transverse bands of silvery setulae. Postpronotum pale brown, slightly paler in ground colour than scutum. Anepisternum with white to yellow band not reaching postpronotum, starting at level with anterior notopleural seta; lower margin to lower third of posterior margin of anepisternum; with pale setulae, ventrally and posteriorly with black setulae; one anepisternal. Anatergite and katatergite brown. Scutellum white, ventrally with 3 brown apical spots, not visible in dorsal view. Subscutellum black.
Legs brown, tarsal segments and fore tibia yellow; mid and hind tibia brown basally, gradually paler colour with only apical third completely yellow.
Wing (
Fig. 12
). One hyaline indentation in cell c, without darker markings; very deep, reaching cells bm or cu2. Sband and inverted Vband not fused. Sband with very small subapical tooth. Crossvein DMCu straight or slightly sinuous. RM ratio 0.910.94.
Abdomen. Shining blackbrown, tergite 5 with median yellow spot, posteriorly wider; with black setulae. Spermatheca ovoid in apical part, base slender. Female terminalia, oviscape about as long as abdominal tergites, cylindrical; shining blackbrown, with black setulae. Aculeus yellow to orange, slender (
Fig. 15
), flat, about 20 times longer than wide; aculeus tip straight, pointed, and serrate (
Fig. 33
).
Body length: 3.87 (3.684.00)mm; wing length 4.27 (4.164.32)mm
Material examined
Type
material:
Lectotype
(designated by inference of
holotype
by D.E. Hardy, 1966: 663) ɗ:
SIERRA LEONE
, D.F. Morgan (BMNH).
Other material:
IVORY COAST
, Bingerville,
VII.1962
, “récolté sur fleurs de Conopharyngia”, J. Decelle, 2ɗɗ 3ΨΨ (KMMA); 1Ψ (BMNH).
SIERRA LEONE
: 1Ψ, Lungi,
14.VII.1959
, C.P. Hoyt (BMNH)
Distribution
Sierra Leone
,
Ivory Coast
.
Comments
C. tritea
turned out to be a species complex with most species to be differentiated by the shape of the aculeus tip. Three species are currently recognized:
C. tritea
,
C. schoutedeni
sp.n.
and
C. interrupta
sp.n
..