identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
935987A3FFB0FF9AF616FDB0FC81FA61.text	935987A3FFB0FF9AF616FDB0FC81FA61.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis (Hendel 1912)	<div><p>Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis (Hendel, 1912)</p> <p>1912. Dacus (Bactrocera) dorsalis Hendel, Supplta. Ent. 1:</p> <p>18.</p> <p>Type locality: Koshun, Taiwan.</p> <p>Materials examined: 2♀, 22°36′26″ N, 88°24′38″ E, 9 m, Host plant - Hedychium coronarium (J. Koenig, 1783), Bangur Avenue, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=88.41056&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=22.607224" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 88.41056/lat 22.607224)">Kolkata</a>, West Bengal, 21.ix.2021, collected by P. Parui [NZSI].</p> <p>Diagnosis: Figure 2 exhibits the habitus of Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis (Hendel, 1912). The species Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis could easily be separated from others by the costal band not extending below the second longitudinal vein (R2+3) except at the apex of the wing.</p> <p>Face with a black spot in the antennal furrow. Mesonotum with two postsutural yellow vittae, scutellum yellow with a narrow black band at base, upper portion of stereopleuron bears a yellow mark. Third abdominal segment with a black band and a longitudinal extending up to fourth terga.</p> <p>Costal band of wing narrow and enlarged at apex like Cucurbitae Coquellett.</p> <p>Legs reddish, fore tibiae with brown tinge on posterior margin, mid with brown tinge at base and hind tibia wholly brown tinge. The ovipositor sharply pointed at apex.</p> <p>Distribution: In different states within India: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.</p> <p>Elsewhere: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China (southern), Japan, Hawaiian Islands, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Marianas, Micronesia, Moluccas, Myanmar, Nepal, North Australia, Ogasawara Islands, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Taiwan, Tahiti, Thailand.</p> <p>Remarks: This fly is a flower visitor and pollen eater of the plant H. coronarium, besides its common role as one of the most severe pests of fruits and vegetables.</p> <p>Foraging Behaviour and Ecology</p> <p>The species B. dorsalis has been observed due to feed on the pollen of the flower of the plant Hedychium coronarium (Butterfly lily) of the family Zingiberaceae, commonly called Butterfly lily. Like “early birds” Platycheirus and Melanostoma (Ssymank, 2001), this Bactrocera species starts feeding on pollen early in the morning even when the pollen remains wet and eating for a pretty long time. But they become agile when sunlight touches the flowers. Traits are less common in the early morning (Inouye, et al., 2015). This tephritid species was also observed feeding on a single flower for a long time and experimented that they do not feel much disturbed even when the flower is moved with hand. As the hovering mode of flying is more expensive than all flying modes (Kevan and Baker,</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/935987A3FFB0FF9AF616FDB0FC81FA61	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Banerjee, Dhriti;Singh, Siddharth;Chowdhury, Mousumi	Banerjee, Dhriti, Singh, Siddharth, Chowdhury, Mousumi (2022): First Record of Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis (Hendel, 1912) (Diptera: Tephritidae) on Hedychium coronarium (family Zingiberaceae) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 122 (2): 207-211, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v122/i2/2022/168496
