Bactrocera (Bactrocera) prabhakari Maneesh, Gupta & Hancock (2023)

Singh, Maneesh Pal & Hancock, David Lawrence, 2025, Two new species of genus Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) from northern Himalayas and new records of host plants, distribution or variation in three other species in India, Zootaxa 5666 (2), pp. 175-194 : 181

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D65B18D9-F926-4B48-A7B5-989D628948D9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16755139

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8A658783-FFC1-FFDB-D594-5C47FAE3F818

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Plazi

scientific name

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) prabhakari Maneesh, Gupta & Hancock (2023)
status

 

Variation in Bactrocera (Bactrocera) prabhakari Maneesh, Gupta & Hancock (2023)

( Figure 4C View FIGURE 4 )

This species was described by Maneesh et al. (2023) along with its genital characters and we record here variation in females trapped in the field.

Variation: Two pairs of frontal setae instead of three (in one specimen only; another with 3 pairs), fore and mid femora broadly black except slight basal and apical portions and all tibiae black (fig. 4 C). Rest of characters including abdominal band pattern and genitalia same as described. Presence of 2 or 3 frontal setae possibly common mutation in species. However, shape of medial lobe of aculeus and other characters are stable as described, making this species distinct .

Material examined: 2 ♀, Solan Bait, INDIA, Himachal Pradesh, Solan, Nauni , 30°51’47” N 77°10’7” E. 18.ix.2024, Maneesh Leg. Voucher specimens with first author GoogleMaps .

Parapheromone: Unknown (attracted to Solan Bait sprayed on apple trees).

Host plant: Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. (syn. S. khasianum C.B. Clarke ) ( Maneesh et al., 2023).

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University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Tribe

Dacini

Genus

Bactrocera

SubGenus

Bactrocera

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