Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew, 1999

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 : 96

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E8297E11-ECD4-440F-A656-CF1E58E905A4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15562059

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew
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Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew View in CoL

( Figures 26 View FIGURES 26−28 f−28f)

Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew, 1999: 659 View in CoL .

Material examined: 1♀ INDIA, Tamil Nadu, Valparai , no date, Yeshwanth, H.M. ( UASB) .

Diagnosis. It is similar to A. parastriata and A. breviscapa in having a continuous costal band and its general colour pattern, but can be differentiated by dark fuscous discal band, fulvous postpronotal lobe and dark fuscous femora. Oviscape ( 1.70 mm long), flattened dorsoventrally, 15−20 elongate spicules on distal end of long eversible membrane ( 2.70 mm) ( Fig. 27f View FIGURES 26−28 ), 2 tightly coiled black club-shaped spermathecae ( Fig. 28f View FIGURES 26−28 ), aculeus tip ( 2.52 mm long) with broadly pointed apex and four pairs of preapical setae ( Fig. 26f View FIGURES 26−28 ).

Comments: This species was originally described and illustrated except for postabdominal structures by Hancock & Drew (1999).

UASB

University of Agricultural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Acroceratitis

Loc

Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew

David, K. J., Noor Mahammed, N. R., Hancock, D. L., Gracy, R. G., Ningthoujam, Kennedy & Sushil, S. N. 2025
2025
Loc

Acroceratitis tenmalaica

Hancock, D. L. & Drew, R. A. I. 1999: 659
1999
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