Acroceratitis breviscapa David, Ramani & Hancock

David, K. J., Noor Mahammed, N. R., Hancock, D. L., Gracy, R. G., Ningthoujam, Kennedy & Sushil, S. N., 2025, Taxonomic notes on Oriental bamboo-shoot fruit fly genus Acroceratitis Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Gastrozonini), with description of a new species from India, Zootaxa 5637 (1), pp. 83-98 : 91

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15562051
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scientific name	Acroceratitis breviscapa David, Ramani & Hancock
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( David et al., 2014; figs. 13−19)

Acroceratitis breviscapa David, Ramani & Hancock , in David et al., 2014: 415 View Cited Treatment .

Material examined: Holotype ♀, INDIA, Karnataka, Madikeri , 08.xi.2012, David, K.J. ( NIM).

Diagnosis: It is similar to A. striata , A. sachini and A. parastriata in the presence of a prominent black spot on the postpronotal lobe, the scutellum predominantly black with a narrow basal yellow band, and wing with a continuous costal band, and further resembles A. sachini in having the subapical and posterior apical bands separated from the costal band, but it can be differentiated by the shorter oviscape ( 0.85 mm long) and connected subapical and posterior apical wing bands.

Comments: This species was described and illustrated by David et al. (2014) based on a female specimen from Madikeri, Karnataka.