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Elaphromyia Bigot 1859

  • 1. National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore- 560024, Karnataka, India.
  • 2. 60 South Street, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 1 2 EP, United Kingdom. & dlhancock 20 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8478 - 7976
  • 3. National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore- 560024, Karnataka, India. & sachink 8390204 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1108 - 1913
  • 4. National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore- 560024, Karnataka, India. & ramya. ento @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5817 - 4546
  • 5. Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore- 560065, Karnataka, India. & ramanisrinivasan 55 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3831 - 0050

Description

Elaphromyia Bigot

Elaphromyia Bigot, 1859: 314. Type species Elaphromyia melas Bigot, 1859 (= Trypeta adatha Walker, 1849).

Paralleloptera Bezzi, 1913: 154. Type species Paralleloptera pterocallaeformis Bezzi, 1913.

Diagnosis: Small to medium-sized flies (2–5 mm), with elongate, parallel-sided, predominantly brown wing (Figs. 1, 6, 15–16) with a series of subhyaline spots/markings, a series of marginal spots and the dorsal setulae on vein R 1 without a gap posterior to the end of vein Sc. Epandrium bar-shaped in profile without demarcation between epandrium and lateral surstylus, proctiger smaller than epandrium, glans of phallus with acrophallus patterned and broadly bifid. Taeniae elongate, reaching more than three-quarters length of eversible membrane, aculeus with apex flattened in sagittal plane, two dark brown to black spermathecae with numerous projections.

Notes

Published as part of David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Sachin, K., Ramya, R. S. & Ramani, S., 2021, Taxonomic notes on the genus Elaphromyia Bigot (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae: Pliomelaenini) in India, with description of a new species, pp. 251-262 in Zootaxa 5023 (2) on page 252, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5023.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5225884

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bigot
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tephritidae
Genus
Elaphromyia
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Elaphromyia Bigot, 1859 sec. David, Hancock, Sachin, Ramya & Ramani, 2021

References

  • Bigot, J. M. F. (1859) Dipterorum aliquat nova genera. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquee, Paris, Series 2, 11, 305 - 315.
  • Bezzi, M. (1913) Indian trypaneids (fruit-flies) in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 3, 53 - 175.