Rhabdochaeta de Meijere

Singh, Maneesh Pal & Hancock, David Lawrence, 2025, Five new species of subfamily Tephritinae (Tephritidae: Diptera) from Himalayas and description of postabdominal structures in Chaetostomella completa (Kapoor, Malla & Ghosh), Pliomelaena spathuliniforma (Dirlbek & Dirlbek) and P. zonogastra (Bezzi), Zootaxa 5689 (2), pp. 299-332 : 319

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:53139C23-EDE4-4BBF-9F20-71F0595192FF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17319417

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87BA-6B3E-FF90-FF0D-C2E64EC3DBD4

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Rhabdochaeta de Meijere
status

 

Genus Rhabdochaeta de Meijere View in CoL

Type species: Rhabdochaeta pulchella de Meijere, 1904: 109 .

This genus is characterized by long, dagger like dorsally curved flagellum almost the width of compound eyes, interfrontal setae present, anterior frontal setae usually broad, striated and lamellate, palpi usually long-fringed with stout black setulae, scutum with erect white setae in addition to usual setae, dorsocentral setae anterior to postsutural supra-alar setae, prescutellar acrostichal setae anterior to intra-alar setae, wing with cleft at Sc break, brown to dark brown bullae, dark to white rays on costal and apical margins, vein M with distinct apical curve beyond dm-cu crossvein and abdomen with whitish setulae and lacking erect setae.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

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