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Bactrocera (Bactrocera) tuberculata

Description

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) tuberculata (Bezzi)

Chaetodacus tuberculatus Bezzi, 1916: 106. Holotype male in BMNH.

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) tuberculata – Liang et al., 1993: 138; Norrbom et al., 1998: 96.

Material examined. BHUTAN: 3 males (6 May.2000), 6 males (13 May.2000), 6 males (20 May.2000), 11 males (27 May.2000), 5 males (2 Jun.2000), Phuentsholing, coll. S. Thapa; 1 male, Rimchu 1, 28. Jun.2000, coll. C. Dorji; 1 male (17 May.2000), 1 male (21 Jun.2000), Rimchu 2, coll. C. Dorji; 5 males, Suntalay, 15 May.2000, coll. S. Wangdi, T. Dorji & S. Dorji; 3 males, Suntalay, 5 Jun.2000, coll. S.D., T.D. & S.W.; 1 male, Suntalay, Tsirang, 11 Nov.2004, coll. Karma Dukpa; 1 male, Samdrup Jongkhar District, 5 Dec.2004, coll. Wangdi. All specimens attracted to methyl eugenol. Specimens in NPPC and QDPI.

Diagnosis. Face fulvous with a pair of medium sized circular black spots; scutum entirely black, postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow, mesopleural stripe reaching almost to anterior npl. seta dorsally, a pair of broad parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae ending behind ia. seta, medial postsutural vitta absent; setae: sc. 2; prsc. 2; ia. 1; p.sa. 1; a.sa. 1; mpl. 1; npl. 2; scp. 4; scutellum yellow except for a narrow black basal band; legs with all segments entirely fulvous; wings with cells bc and c colourless and entirely devoid of microtrichia, a narrow pale fuscous costal band confluent with R 2+3 and ending at extremity of this vein, a small fuscous spot around apex of R 4+5, a very narrow pale fuscous cubital streak, supernumerary lobe weak; abdominal terga III-V entirely black.

Attractant. – Methyl eugenol.

Distribution. Myanmar, Southwest China. New record for Bhutan.

Hosts. A range of commercial and wild hosts (see Allwood et al., 1999).

Remarks. This species is unique in having a black scutum, abdominal terga III-V entirely black, wing with costal band terminating at apex of R 2+3 and a small fuscous spot around apex of R 4+5. It is not known to be a pest species.

Notes

Published as part of Drew, R. A. I., Romig, M. C. & Dorji, C., 2007, Records Of Dacine Fruit Flies And New Species Of Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) In Bhutan, pp. 1-21 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5331152

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References

  • Bezzi, M., 1916. On the fruit-flies of the genus Dacus (s. l.) occurring in India, Burma, and Ceylon. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 7: 99 - 121.
  • Liang, G. Q., D. L. Hancock, W. Xu & F. Liang, 1993. Notes on the Dacinae of southern China (Diptera: Tephritidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 32: 137 - 140.
  • Norrbom, A. L., L. E. Carroll, F. C. Thomson, I. M. White & A. Freidberg, 1998. Systematic database of names. Myia, 9: 65 - 251.
  • Allwood, A. L., A. Chinajariyawong, R. A. I. Drew, E. L. Hamacek, D. L. Hancock, C. Hengsawad, J. C. Jipanin, M. Jirasurat, C. Kong Krong, S. Kritsaneepaiboon, C. T. S. Leong & S. Vijaysegaran, 1999. Host plant records for fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Southeast Asia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement, 7: 1 - 92.