Published September 3, 2025
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Aciura;Afraciura;Bezzina;Brachyaciura;Cesaspheniscus;Chipingomyia;Curticella;Dicheniotes;Dorycricus;Ghentia;Gymnaciura;Hyaloctoides;Katonaia;Malagaciura;Malaisinia;Manicomyia;Metasphenisca;Munroella;Ocnerioxyna;Oxyaciura;Paraciura;Paraspheniscoides;Pediapelta;Perirhithrum;Platensina;Platomma;Pliomelaena;Psednometopum;Pseudafreutreta;Pterope;Sphaeniscus;Stephanotrypeta;Sundaresta;Tephraciura;Tephrelalis;Tephrella;Triandomelaena;Ypsilomena
Authors/Creators
- 1. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Neri, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India.
- 2. 14 Yew Tree Court, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 2 5 QA, United Kingdom.
Description
Tribe Tephrellini
Tribe Tephrellini is characterized by shiny black body and black wings with distinct hyaline indentations or broad spots and often with shiny, light reflecting spots (argents). It is represented by 12 species in 6 genera in India, three in Metasphenisca Hendel, one in Tephraciura Hering, one in Aciura Robineau-Desvoidy, four in Pristaciura Hendel, two in Sphaeniscus Becker and one in Tephrella Bezzi (Agarwal & Sueyoshi; 2005; Hancock 2010; Maneesh & Prabhakar, 2025; this paper). Species of Tephrellini are mostly associated with Acanthaceae, Lamiaceae and verbenaceae, with Barleria sp. (Acanthaceae) a major host in India.
Notes
Published as part of Singh, Maneesh Pal & Hancock, David Lawrence, 2025, Five new species of subfamily Tephritinae (Tephritidae: Diptera) from Himalayas and description of postabdominal structures in Chaetostomella completa (Kapoor, Malla & Ghosh), Pliomelaena spathuliniforma (Dirlbek & Dirlbek) and P. zonogastra (Bezzi), pp. 299-332 in Zootaxa 5689 (2) on page 324, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5689.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/17319321
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Tephritidae
- Taxon rank
- tribe
References
- Hancock, D. L. (2010) A review of the fruit fly tribe Tephrellini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) in the Indo-Australian region. Australian Entomologist, 37 (1), 1-6.
- Maneesh, P. S. & Prabhakar, C. S. (2025) A new species of Pristaciura Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae: Tephrellini) and new distribution record of Procecidochares utilis Stone from Himalayas. Zootaxa, 5604 (4), 588-594. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.10