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Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering

  • 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

Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering

(Figures 56–64)

Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering, 1941: 25.

Material examined: 1♀, INDIA: Meghalaya, Thangshalai, 1297 m, 250 27'N, 920 11'E, 05.vi.2013, Vinayaka, T., Sweepnet (UASB); 1♂, INDIA: Meghalaya, Umiam, 25.iv.2023, Kennedy Ningthoujam (NIM).

Diagnosis: Frons reddish-brown with two frontal and one orbital setae, face without any markings, combined length of pedicel plus flagellomere slightly shorter than face, ocellar triangle black with setae vestigial, medial and lateral vertical setae present, postocellar seta thin, postocular setae thin, black, occiput with broad black markings. Scutum reddish brown with yellow postpronotal lobe, black presutural areas around postpronotal lobe, black longitudinal line connecting postpronotal lobe and two prescutellar black spots; pleura and legs entirely yellow. Wing predominantly hyaline with discal band broad with a hyaline spot in cell br, subapical band fused with broad apical black patch. Tergites 1, 2 fully yellow/fulvous, tergites 3–4 with broad quadrate patches, tergite 5 entirely black. Epandrium sclerotised with elongate lateral surstylus as broad as epandrium, proctiger hyaline and larger than epandrium, glans of phallus quadrate, well sclerotised. Oviscape dark brown to black (0.97 mm), eversible membrane (1.00 mm) with 7–8 projections on spicules at distal end, aculeus (0.81 mm) with blunt tip and two pairs of long setae, spermatheca black, quadrate with small apical papilla.

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 316, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13747000

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NIM , T , UASB
Event date
2013-06-05 , 2023-04-25
Verbatim event date
2013-06-05 , 2023-04-25
Scientific name authorship
Hering
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tephritidae
Genus
Phorelliosoma
Species
hilaratum
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Hering, E. M. (1941) Neue Dacinae und Trypetinae des Zoologischen Museums der Universitat Berlin. Siruna Seva, 3, 1 - 25.