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Rhagoletis bagheera Richter & Kandybina 1997

  • 1. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine & Michigan State University, Department of Entomology, Natural Sciences Building, 288 Farm Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA & University of California, Davis, Department of Entomology and Nematology, College of Agricultural & California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview
  • 2. Michigan State University, Department of Entomology, Natural Sciences Building, 288 Farm Lane, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
  • 3. Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research EAER, Mueller-Thurgau-Strasse 29, 8820 Waedenswil, Switzerland
  • 4. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine

Description

Rhagoletis bagheera Richter & Kandybina, 1997 (fig. 3)

Rhagoletis bagheera Richter & Kandybina, 1997: 915 (description, biology); Korneyev et al., 2018 a: 462 (key); Korneyev & Korneyev, 2019: 93 (key).

Type material. Holotype ♂: Armenia: “ Erevan, ex fruits of Rhamnus pallasii, em. 28.VI.1971 ” (G. Ariutunan) (ZISP).

Paratypes. Armenia: Erevan, ex fruits of Rhamnus pallasii, em. 28.06.1971, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (G. Arutiunan); Asni, Vedi Distr., 5.08.1965, 37 ♂, 20 ♀ (V. Richter), 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same labels (SIZK); Georgia: Vashlovan Nature Reserve, ex fruits of Rhamnus pallasii, 2 ♀, em. 24.06.1974 (I. Hodzevanishvili); idem, em. 4– 18.05.1981 (I. Hodzhevanishvili) (ZISP).

Diagnosis. Head yellow, antenna and frontal vitta dark yellow; ventral half of median occipital sclerite and occiput lateral of it widely black or brown, widely yellow emarginated. Flagellomere 1 pointed apically. Scutum black, with 4 gray microtrichose vittae. Wing pattern with four brown bands, without intercalary band; apical band separated from costa by hyaline area in cells r 2+3 and r 4+5 (fig. 1, d). Femora dark brown to black. Abdomen black, tergites with yellow posterior margins. This species is similar to R. batava and R. merzi in general appearance and femora coloration, but is conspicuously smaller (body length = 2.7–2.9 mm and wing length = 2.2–2.36 mm for R. bagheera,> 3 mm in R. batava and R. merzi) and has different host plants: Rhamnus (Rhamnaceae) for R. bagheera, and Hippophae (Elaeagnaceae) for R. batava and Juniperus (Cupressaceae) for R. merzi.

Measurements. Wing length ♂ = 2.0– 2.4 mm; wing length ♀ = 2.2–2.5; costal cell length = 0.7; aculeus length = 0.71 mm; aculeus length / costal cell length = 1 (Richter & Kandybina, 1997).

Host plant. Rhamnus pallasii Fisch. & C.A. Mey (Richter & Kandybina, 1997).

Distribution. Armenia, Georgia.

Notes

Published as part of Korneyev, S. V., Smith, J. J., Hulbert, D. L., Frey, J. E. & Korneyev, V. A., 2022, A New Species Of Rhagoletis (Diptera, Tephritidae) From Switzerland, With Discussion Of Its Relationships Within The Genus, pp. 1-20 in Zoodiversity 56 (1) on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2022.01.001, http://zenodo.org/record/6456140

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References

  • Richter, V. A., Kandybina, M. N. 1997. A new species of fruit flies of the genus Rhagoletis Loew (Diptera, Tephritidae) from Transcaucasia. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 76 (4), 914 - 920 [In Russian].
  • Korneyev, V. A., Mishustin, R. I., Korneyev, S. V. 2018 a. The Carpomyini fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) of Europe, Caucasus, and Middle East: new records of pest species, with improved keys. Vestnik Zoologii, [2017], 51 (6), 453 - 470. DOI 10.2478 / vzoo- 2017 - 0056.
  • Korneyev, S. V., Korneyev, V. A. 2019. Description of a new species of the genus Rhagoletis Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Nepal, with a key to species from Central and Southern Asia. Israel Journal of Entomology, 49 (2), 87 - 97. DOI: 10.5281 / zenodo. 3362252