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Issue: Vol. 5506 No. 3: 9 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1
Page range: 301-321
Abstract views: 139
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New species and new records of fruit flies of tribe Acanthonevrini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Phytalmiinae) from India

ICAR—National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Bengaluru-560024; Karnataka; India
9 Yew Tree Court; Carlisle; Cumbria CA2 5QA; United Kingdom
ICAR—National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Bengaluru-560024; Karnataka; India
College of Post-Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences; CAU (Imphal); Umiam-793103; Meghalaya; India
Banaras Hindu University; Varanasi; Uttar Pradesh; India
Department of Entomology; Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences; Shivamogga-577204; Karnataka; India
ICAR—National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Bengaluru-560024; Karnataka; India
ICAR—National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources; Bengaluru-560024; Karnataka; India
Diptera Ptilona Tritaeniopteron bamboo Arunachal Pradesh Assam Meghalaya

Abstract

Two new species of Phytalmiinae belonging to the tribe Acanthonevrini are described from India, namely Ptilona confracta David & Hancock, sp. nov. from Arunachal Pradesh and Tritaeniopteron obscurum David, Salini & Nikhil, sp. nov. from Karnataka. Tritaeniopteron de Meijere is recorded for the first time from India based on the new species T. obscurum; male and female syntypes of T. punctatipleurum (Senior-White) are dissected and illustrated. A female of Erectovena desperata (Hering), both sexes of Felderimyia gombakensis Hancock & Drew and Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering, recorded for the first time from India are dissected and illustrated. An illustrated key to 23 species of Acanthonevrini belonging to 12 genera from India is included. DNA barcode sequences of Felderimyia fuscipennis Hendel, Ptilona confracta, P. confinis (Walker), Rioxoptilona dunlopi (van der Wulp) and Themara yunnana Zia were obtained and reported.

 

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