Published September 9, 2024 | Version v1
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Tritaeniopteron Meijere

  • 1. ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru- 560024, Karnataka, India.
  • 2. 9 Yew Tree Court, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 2 5 QA, United Kingdom.
  • 3. College of Post-Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU (Imphal), Umiam- 793103, Meghalaya, India.
  • 4. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • 5. Department of Entomology, Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga- 577204, Karnataka, India.

Description

Genus Tritaeniopteron Meijere

Tritaeniopteron Meijere, 1914: 209. Type species: eburneum Meijere, 1914, by monotypy.

Diagnosis: Predominantly yellow coloured, all body setae yellow; head with 1–2 pairs of frontal and 2 pairs of orbital setae; wing hyaline with brown oblique bands, cell sc much shorter than cell c; katepisternal seta well developed. Epandrium not sclerotised, elongate (longer than high), proctiger hyaline, higher than epandrium. Ovipositor with blunt aculeus tip and sensory setae, spermatheca oval-shaped. The five previously known species were reviewed and keyed by Hancock (2012a).

Notes

Published as part of David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Salini, S., Ningthoujam, Kennedy, Khemrajji, Hatwar Nikhil, Abhishek, V., Gracy, R. G. & Sushil, S. N., 2024, New species and new records of fruit flies of tribe Acanthonevrini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Phytalmiinae) from India, pp. 301-321 in Zootaxa 5506 (3) on page 308, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13747000

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Meijere
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tephritidae
Genus
Tritaeniopteron
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • de Meijere, J. C. H. (1914) Studien uber sudostasiatischen Diptera. IX. [concl.]. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 57, 169 - 275.
  • Hancock, D. L. (2012 a) Bamboo-stem flies: An annotated key to the species of the Sophira complex of genera (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini). Australian Entomologist, 39 (1), 5 - 32.