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. procera
(
Enderlein, 1920
)
(
Fig. 4
)
Ceratitis procera
Enderlein, 1920
: 345
.
Carpophthoromyia procera
:
Bezzi 1924
b, Cogan & Munro 1980.
Diagnosis
Arista medium pilose; frons with upper part darker, three frontals; scutum with two broad transverse bands; postpronotum white; scutellum completely white; fore femur reddish brown; anterior margin of wing with two hyaline indentations, in cell c and sc; Sband and inverted Vband separate.
Description
Head. Antennal segments yellow to orange. Arista medium long pilose, longest rays usually slightly more than half the width of first flagellomere but never equal to width. Frons yellow, upper third (area in between orbitals to upper margin ocellar triangle) brown. Three frontals placed on oblique line, with anterior frontal 1.52 times as far from the inner eye margin than posterior frontal; two orbitals. Face white, gena dark brown.
Thorax. Scutum shining blackbrown; black setulae, except for two broad transverse bands with silvery setulae; one anteriorly of transverse suture, continuing posteriorly along lateral margins to base of postsutural supraalars or slightly beyond, second one near dorsocentrals; third smaller region with silvery setulae between postpronotal lobes. Postpronotum white. Anepisternum with white band with lower margin reaching posteroventral corner or almost so; with pale setulae, lower fourth with black setulae, two anepisternals. Anatergite and katatergite white. Scutellum completely white. Subscutellum blackbrown.
Legs reddish brown, tibia and tarsal segments yellow.
Wing (
Fig. 4
). Hyaline indentation in cell c, with black patches and streaks. Hyaline indentation near junction of vein C with apical part of vein R1, reaching R4+5. Sband and inverted Vband completely separate. Sband with small trace of subapical tooth, rarely (one specimen: Lolodorf locality in MNHU collection) tooth extending to inverted Vband. Crossvein DMCu slightly sinuous. RM ratio 1.351.70.
Abdomen. Shining brown, posterior half of tergites 24 more yelloworange, sometimes tergites 12 largely or completely orange; with black setulae, tergites 24 with silvery setulae and microtrichosity along yelloworange band; tergite 5 more reddish brown. Spermatheca ovoid in apical part, base slender. Female terminalia, oviscape at least as long as abdominal tergites; shining brown, with black setulae. Aculeus orange, cylindrical, about 10 times longer than wide; aculeus tip darker orange and slightly downcurved.
Body length: 7.86 (7.208.64)mm; wing length 7.80 (6.408.40)mm
Material examined
Type
material:
Lectotype
ɗ (herewith designated): [
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
], “Span.
Guinea
// Uellebg. Benitogbt.”,
1531.I.1907
, G. Tessmann (MNHU).
Paralectotypes
:
CAMEROON
: 1ɗ, Lolodorf, L. Conradt (MNHU); 1Ψ, “JohannAlbrechtshöhe”,
23.III.1896
, L. Conradt (BMNH).
Other material (erroneously labeled as
type
; cf. comments below):
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
, 1Ψ, Nkolentangan,
November 1907
May 1908
, G. Tessmann (MNHU).
Distribution
Cameroon
,
Equatorial Guinea
Comments
Both
procera
and
scutellata
are very closely related and difficult to differentiate, the main character being the colour of the fore femur. Based on this, both are still considered here as separate species.The specimen from Nkolentangan is labelled as
type
but does not belong to the
type
series. The original description mentions
1m
and 1f from Uelleburg (male is at MNHU);
1m
from Lolodorf (also MNHU), and
1m
from JohannAlbrechtshöhe. The latter is probably erroneously sexed and is the female
paratype
at the BMNH (all specifications in publication correspond with label data).