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Published September 3, 2025 | Version v1
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Deroparia;Euryphalara;Ghentia;Hyaloctoides;Manicomyia;Platomma;Psednometopum;Stephanotrypeta;Sundaresta;Triandomelaena;Xenodorella

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 Pliomelaenini

Tribe Pliomelaenini was represented previously in India by 8 recorded species in 4 genera: Elaphromyia Bigot, Pliomelaena Bezzi, Quadrimelaena Hancock and Sundaresta Hering (Agarwal & Sueyoshi 2005; Hancock 2004; Singh et al. 2025). A new species is added here. The tribe is characterized by pale setae on head and thorax, wings dark with numerous hyaline indentations, male genitalia usually bifid or with paired apical structure above preputium and host plants mostly flower heads of Acanthaceae.

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 308, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5689.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/17319321

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87BA6B23FF8DFF0DC2E64E0FDBAD

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5689.2.4 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17319321 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA2FFC26B2AFF84FF9AC2714D51DA24 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/53139C23-EDE4-4BBF-9F20-71F0595192FF (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/039B87BA6B23FF8DFF0DC2E64E0FDBAD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/303865618 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/312776/taxon/039B87BA6B23FF8DFF0DC2E64E0FDBAD.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tephritidae
Taxon rank
tribe

References

  • Agarwal, M. L. & Sueyoshi, M. (2005) Catalogue of Indian fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Oriental Insects, 39, 371-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2005.10417450
  • Hancock, D. L. (2004) A review of the fruit fly tribe Pliomelaenini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) in the Indo-Australian region. Australian Entomologist, 31 (3), 133-136.
  • Singh, S. K., David, K. J., Ramani, S. & Sachin, K. (2025) An updated checklist for fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of India with new species and new distribution records. Zootaxa, 5607 (1), 1-71. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5607.1.1