New species and host plant records for Neotropical Rhagoletis Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae)
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Rodriguez, Pedro Alexander
Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario (ICA), C. I. Tibaitatá km 14 vía Bogotá Mosquera, Colombia.
Author
Norrbom, Allen L.
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Systematic EntomologyLaboratory, USDA, ARS, c / oNational Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012. allen. norrbom @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5854 - 089 X & Jardín Botánico de Bogotá José Celestino Mutis, Calle 63 # 68 - 95 Bogotá D. C.
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Author
Peñaranda, Guadalupe Caicedo Emilio Arévalo
Author
Balseiro, Francisco
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Rhagoletis macquartii
(Loew)
Figs. 37–40
Urophora scutellaris
Macquart 1851: 261
(
Syntype
(s), number and sex not stated, “Brésil.
Goyas
[
Brazil
:
Goiás
].
M. Castelnau. Muséum
”) (preocc. Wiedemann 1830).
Trypeta macquartii
Loew 1873: 267
(new name for
scutellaris
Macquart
).
Rhagoletis macquartii
:
Loew 1873: 267
;
Foote 1967: 40
,
1981: 37
;
Hernández-Ortiz & Frías 2000: 18
.
Type data.
Under number
1942 in
the Macquart Collection (
MNHNP
) there is
one syntype
with a label with “
Urophora scutellaris Macq.
n. sp.
” in Macquart’s writing and a circular green-backed label with “16, 47”. Although missing its abdomen (Macquart said “abdomen (manque)” [lacking]), hindlegs, and left wing, this specimen, which is here designated as
lectotype
to stabilize usage of this name, is in relatively good condition and generally fits
Foote’s (1981)
diagnosis for
R. macquartii
.
Additional specimens examined.
BRAZIL
:
Minas Gerais
:
São João del Rei
, [
Apr 1819
],
F. Sellow
,
1♂
1♀
on same pin (
ZMHU
) [the pin of this specimen has a green handwritten label with “
San Joao
d.
Rey. Sello
”, and a white label with “2494”; it was determined by
Hering
as
R. scutellaris
, the preoccupied senior synonym of
R. macquartii
]
.
Rio de Janeiro
:
Petropolís
,
24–27 Oct 1919
,
Cornell University Expedition
,
1♀
(
CUI
USNMENT00212827
)
.
Biology.
Host plant unknown.
Comments.
Loew (1873)
proposed a replacement name for
Urophora scutellaris
Macquart
, considering it a secondary junior homonym of
Trypeta scutellaris
Wiedemann, 1830
, when he transferred the former to
Trypeta
, even though he transferred
scutellaris
Wiedemann
to the
Ulidiidae
(as
Ortalidae
) earlier in same publication (p. 142). Secondary junior homonyms replaced before 1961 are invalid according to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
The wing pattern of the
lectotype
(
Fig. 39
) is almost identical to Foote’s figure 83, with no accessory costal band, with a long narrow hyaline mark along the margin of cell r
2+3
, and with cell bm and the base of cell dm entirely dark. The stripes of scutal microtrichia are narrowly connected anteriorly, thus this may not be as reliable a character to distinguish
R. macquartii
from
R. jamaicensis
as suggested by
Foote (1981)
(also see Martinez
et al
. 2017 discussion of variation in this character in
R. jamaicensis
). The continuous marginal hyaline area in cell r
2+3
is present in all of the examined specimens, although its width varies, thus this may be the most reliable character to distinguish
R. macquartii
from
R. jamaicensis
and
R. nicaraguensis
.