New species and new records of fruit flies of tribe Acanthonevrini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Phytalmiinae) from India
Author
David, K. J.
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India.
Author
Hancock, D. L.
9 Yew Tree Court, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 2 5 QA, United Kingdom.
Author
Salini, S.
0000-0003-1234-8330
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India.
shalinis.nilavu@gmail.com
Author
Ningthoujam, Kennedy
College of Post-Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU (Imphal), Umiam- 793103, Meghalaya, India.
Author
Khemrajji, Hatwar Nikhil
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Author
Abhishek, V.
Department of Entomology, Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga- 577204, Karnataka, India.
Author
Gracy, R. G.
0000-0002-6764-5167
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India.
gandhi_gracy@yahoo.co.in
Author
Sushil, S. N.
0000-0002-5718-1629
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India.
ushil@icar.gov.in
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-09-09
5506
3
301
321
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1
1175-5326
13747000
F4D3B7AC-9C1E-4D25-ABD4-FED3B295547B
Phorelliosoma hilaratum
Hering
(
Figures 56–64
)
Phorelliosoma hilaratum
Hering, 1941: 25
.
Material examined:
1♀
,
INDIA
:
Meghalaya
,
Thangshalai
,
1297 m
,
250
27'N,
920
11'E,
05.vi.2013
,
Vinayaka
,
T
.,
Sweepnet
(
UASB
)
;
1♂
,
INDIA
:
Meghalaya
,
Umiam
,
25.iv.2023
,
Kennedy Ningthoujam
(
NIM
)
.
Diagnosis
: Frons reddish-brown with two frontal and one orbital setae, face without any markings, combined length of pedicel plus flagellomere slightly shorter than face, ocellar triangle black with setae vestigial, medial and lateral vertical setae present, postocellar seta thin, postocular setae thin, black, occiput with broad black markings. Scutum reddish brown with yellow postpronotal lobe, black presutural areas around postpronotal lobe, black longitudinal line connecting postpronotal lobe and two prescutellar black spots; pleura and legs entirely yellow. Wing predominantly hyaline with discal band broad with a hyaline spot in cell br, subapical band fused with broad apical black patch. Tergites 1, 2 fully yellow/fulvous, tergites 3–4 with broad quadrate patches, tergite 5 entirely black. Epandrium sclerotised with elongate lateral surstylus as broad as epandrium, proctiger hyaline and larger than epandrium, glans of phallus quadrate, well sclerotised. Oviscape dark brown to black (
0.97 mm
), eversible membrane (1.00 mm) with 7–8 projections on spicules at distal end, aculeus (
0.81 mm
) with blunt tip and two pairs of long setae, spermatheca black, quadrate with small apical papilla.