A new species of Euphranta Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae: Adramini) from India
Author
David, K. J.
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore- 560024, Karnataka, India.
Author
Hancock, D. L.
60 South Street, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 1 2 EP, United Kingdom
Author
Sankararaman, H.
0000-0002-5244-9833
Department of Entomology, Annamalai University, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University sankararaman 05 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5244 - 9833
sankararaman05@gmail.com
Author
Sachin, K.
0000-0002-1108-1913
National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore- 560024, Karnataka, India. & sachink 8390204 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1108 - 1913
sachink8390204@gmail.com
Author
Sudhir, Singh
Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-29
4868
4
584
590
journal article
8863
10.11646/zootaxa.4868.4.8
11f0cf97-3cbb-40c4-82e4-094d21031faa
1175-5326
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Euphranta haldwanica
Hancock & Goodger
Material examined:
1♂
,
Haldwani Div. U.P., H. N. Parker
,
11.iii.1923
,
R
.
R
.
D. 23, B.C.
R 223
, Glass jar A, ex
Dysoxylum malabaricum
,
1♀
same data as above except for date
13.iii.1923
(
FRI
)
Diagnosis:
This species was described by Hancock and Goodger in
David
et al
. (2013)
, wherein morphology of postabdominal structures was not studied except for aculeus tip. Male: epandrium in lateral view oval, broad lateral surstylus (
Fig. 15
) with no delineation of anterior and posterior lobes, proctiger hyaline and setose, much smaller than epandrium; in posterior view, epandrium elongate-oval, medial surstylus shorter than lateral surstylus with weakly sclerotised prensisetae (
Fig. 16
). Phallus elongate, tubular (
3.11 mm
), with glans of phallus almost hyaline except for two basal, conical sclerotised plates without prominent acrophallus (
Fig. 17
). Oviscape (
2.84 mm
long) brown; distal end of eversible membrane (
2.04 mm
) with closely packed broad, dentate spicules (
Fig. 19
); aculeus (
0.83 mm
) tip without preapical indentations (
Fig. 18
). Spermatheca weakly sclerotized, clavate (
Fig. 20
).