Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 1: 11 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.1.2
Page range: 25–34
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species and a new record of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) from India

ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, Karnataka -560024, India
University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, GKVK Campus, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560065, India
Department of Life Sciences,Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
ICAR- Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560079
Diptera Calodacus Anacardiaceae Andaman and Nicobar Islands Zeugodacus

Abstract

Two new species of Bactrocera Macquart, namely Bactrocera (Calodacus) harrietensis Ramani & David, sp. nov. and Bactrocera (Calodacus) chettalli David & Ranganath, sp. nov., are described from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Karnataka, India, respectively. Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) semongokensis Drew & Romig is recorded for the first time from India.

 

References

  1. Agarwal, M.L. & Sueyoshi, M. (2005) Catalogue of Indian fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Oriental Insects, 39, 371−433.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2005.10417450

    David, K.J. & Ramani, S. (2011) An illustrated key to fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Peninsular India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zootaxa, 3021, 1–31.

    Drew, R.A.I. (1989) The tropical fruit flies (Diptera: Tephrititidae: Dacinae) of the Australasian and Oceanic regions. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 26, 1−521.

    Drew, R.A.I. & Romig, M.C. (2013) Tropical Fruit Flies (Tephritidae: Dacinae) of South-East Asia: Indomalaya to North-West Australasia. CAB International, 645 pp.

    Hadley, A. (2011) Combine ZP. Available from: http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ (accessed 22 February 2016)

    Hancock, D.L. (2015) A new subgenus for six Indo-Australian species of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) and subgeneric transfer of four other species. Australian Entomologist, 42 (1), 39−44.

    Hancock, D.L. & Drew, R.A.I. (2015) A review of the Indo-Australian subgenus Parazeugodacus Shiraki of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae). Australian Entomologist, 42 (2), 91−104.

    Macquart, J.P.M. (1835) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Diptères. Tome deuxième. Ouvrage accompagné de planches, IV+pp.710. In: Roret, N. E. (ed.) Nouvelles suites à Buffon: formant avec les oeuvres de cet auteur un cours complet d' histoire naturelle. Collection accompagnée de planches. Roret, Paris. 82 vols + 11 atlases.

    Perkins, F.A. & May, A.W.S. (1949) Studies in Australian and Oriental Trypetidae. Papers of the University of Queensland Department of Biology, 2, 1–21.

    Ranganath, H.R. & Veenakumari, K. (1999) Notes on the dacine fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Andaman and Nicobar islands-II. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 47 (1), 221−224.

    White, I.M., Headrick, D.H., Norrbom, A.L. & Carroll, L.E. (1999) Glossary. In: Aluja, M. & Norrbom, A.L. (Eds.), Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 73–113.