Dacus ( Lophodacus ) kurrensis, White, Ian M. & Goodger, Kim F. M., 2009

White, Ian M. & Goodger, Kim F. M., 2009, African Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae); New Species and Data, with Particular Reference to the Tel Aviv University Collection, Zootaxa 2127, pp. 1-49 : 33-34

Dacus ( Lophodacus) kurrensis sp.n.

Figures 78 – 83 .

Diagnosis. Differs from D. seguyi in having a red-brown (fig. 78) rather than black scutum, and a deeper costal band (fig. 83).

Description. Size. Small, wing length, 5.7 mm. Head (fig. 80). Pedicel+first flagellomere not longer than ptilinal suture. Face, antennal furrow with a dark spot; ovate, slightly taller than broad. Frons, frontal setae 2, orbital setae 1. Thorax (figs 78, 81). Scutum predominantly red-brown, with indistinct fuscous areas pre- and postsuturally either side of mid-line; postpronotal lobe yellow; notopleural callus yellow; notopleural xanthine wedge shaped (connected to notopleural callus); lateral and medial postsutural vitta absent. Scutellum without any dark patterning (except for basal dark margin). Anepisternum with a narrow yellow stripe from notopleural callus to katepisternum; extended onto katepisternum. Laterotergal xanthine confined to katatergite. Thoracic setae. Anterior notopleural seta present but reduced (thin black on left side; thin white on right side); anterior supra-alar seta absent. Wing (fig. 83). Basal cells bc and c without an almost complete covering of microtrichia; cell bm without microtrichia; narrow subbasal raised section of cell br with extensive covering of microtrichia, apically confined to anterior two-thirds. Crossvein R-M beyond middle of cell dm. Costal band complete; shallow, only slightly extending below vein R2+3 before wing apex; apically expanded into a spot which reaches about one-third depth of cell r4+5. Anal streak absent. Cells bc and c hyaline. Without any crossbanding. Legs (fig. 82). Femora bicoloured, yellow basally; fore- and hindfemur red-brown in apical third; midfemur red-brown in apical half. Abdomen (fig. 79). Predominantly red-brown; tergite II yellow apically; tergite III indistinctly fuscous basally. Tergites I – V all fused. Male. Unknown. Female. No data (aculeus retracted and not dissected).

Etymology. Geographic name meaning from Kurra Falls, Nigeria.

Material. NIGERIA: Holotype female, Plateau State, Kurra Falls, 60km s.e. Jos, 5 – 7.xii.1987, F. Kaplan ( TAU).

Remarks. In the absence of a male it is impossible to place this species with certainty. It is similar to D. acutus sp.n. but differs in the shallower costal band and lack of dark abdominal markings.

Figures

FIGURES 78 – 83. Dacus (Lophodacus) kurrensis sp. n., holotype female. 78. Mesonotum, dorsal view. 79. Abdomen, dorsal view. 80. Head, anterior view. 81. Thorax, left lateral view. 82. Legs, left lateral view; fore, mid, hind. 83. Wing, dorsal view. Scale lines = 1 mm.