Ceratitis (Pardalaspis) millicentae, Meyer & Copeland, 2005
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930400004347 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4424D512-B913-3444-FE65-442DF5D3F930 |
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Felipe |
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Ceratitis (Pardalaspis) millicentae |
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sp. nov. |
Ceratitis (Pardalaspis) millicentae View in CoL sp. nov.
( Figures 5 View Figures 1–5 , 11 View Figures 7–11 , 17 View Figures 12–17 )
Diagnosis
Arista with short rays; male frons with silvery microtrichosity; postpronotal lobe without a spot; scutal pattern largely without distinct spots; anepisternum yellowish brown, with upper half white, with two anepisternal setae; wing bands with subapical band separate, posterior apical band absent; legs without feathering; abdomen spotted, without grey bands; aculeus with tip slightly bilobed.
Description
Male: Head: antenna orange. First flagellomere two times as long as pedicel. Arista with short rays, longest dorsal rays usually about twice as long as basal width of arista; ventral rays shorter. Frons completey silvery, less dense in front of ocellar triangle, with short scattered darker setulae. Face orange. Genal setulae and genal seta black, well developed.
Thorax: postpronotal lobe pale greyish white; without spot. Scutum ( Figure 5 View Figures 1–5 ), ground colour greyish, with darker stripes and streaks but no distinct black spots except near intra-alar and prescutellar acrostichal setae; prescutellar markings white, separated by pale area or merged; with silver-grey microtrichosity and pilosity. Scapular setae black. Scutellum pale yellow, basally with two distinct black spots, apically with three separate black spots, extending to basal third. Subscutellum completely black. Anepisternum lower half yellow-brown, upper half white; two black anepisternal setae, setulae white, upper margin with black setulae.
Legs: pale yellowish brown; setation mixed black and white. Fore femur with ventral setae black.
Wing: pattern as in Figure 11 View Figures 7–11 ; bands mainly brown. Anterior apical and discal bands not separate; subapical band separate; posterior apical band absent; crossvein R-M at, or just distal to, middle of discal medial cell.
Abdomen: greyish, lateral margin and tergite 5 largely with orange tinge; pilosity mixed black and white. Tergites with darker spots.
Female. As male except for the following characters. Frons yellow-brown, weakly silvery. Face white, lower margin yellow. Oviscape about as long as preabdomen. Aculeus at least 10 times longer than wide, tip ( Figure 17 View Figures 12–17 ) bilobed and lateral margin slightly sinuate.
Body length. 6.54 (5.75–7.20) mm.
Wing length. 5.99 (5.25–6.50) mm.
Type material
Holotype „, Kenya, Coast Province , Shimba Hills, 21 July 2000, USAID sample 780, reared ex fruits Tabernaemontana elegans , leg. R. S. Copeland. Holotype deposited in collection of NMK. Paratypes: 16 „„, 17♀♀, same data as holotype; 1 „, 8 June 2000, USAID sample K582, reared ex fruits Tabernaemontana elegans ; 1 „, 1♀, 8 June 2000, USAID sample 717, reared ex fruits Tabernaemontana elegans ; 7 „? „, 12♀♀, 5 February 2001, USDA sample 995, reared ex fruits Tabernaemontana elegans ; 4 „„, 7♀♀, 5 February 2001, USDA sample 1033, reared ex fruits Tabernaemontana elegans ; 1♀, 21 March 2001, USDA sample 1085, reared ex fruits Tabernaemontana elegans , all leg. R. S. Copeland . Paratypes deposited in collections of NMK, KMMA, BMNH, TAMU, ICIPE , and USNM.
Etymology
Named after the late Ms Millicent Okumu, the chief laboratory technician for the USAID and USDA projects at ICIPE, who supervised the rearing of this and other new species described in this paper.
Host plants
Reared from fruits of Tabernaemontana elegans Stapf (Apocynaceae) .
Remarks
This species is closely related to C. punctata (Wiedemann) . The females can be easily differentiated by the shape of the aculeus tip which is simply pointed in C. punctata while bilobed in C. millicentae . The males are very similar, the only difference noted is in the extent of the frontal microtrichosity. In C. punctata the silvery microtrichosity is restricted to the lower third of the frons (not along entire length as first stated in De Meyer 1996, see correction in De Meyer 1999a), not extending beyond the frontal setae. In C. millicentae the microtrichosity extends all the way up to the medial vertical seta, but is less conspicuous in the upper median part in front of the ocellar triangle. Confusion in earlier identified material of C. punctata cannot be excluded and records, especially from eastern and southern Africa, should be reconfirmed. The species can be identified with the key provided by De Meyer (1996) given the following adjustment.
For the males:
7 Mesonotum with orange tinge; scutellum without black basal spots.. hamata
– Mesonotum greyish, no orange tinge; scutellum usually with well-defined black basal spots.................... 7a
7a Frons with silvery microtrichosity restricted to lower third, not extending beyond the frontal setae................. punctata – Frons with silvery microtrichosity extending up to the medial vertical seta.................. millicentae sp. n.
For the females:
16 Anepisternum with black pilosity on lower half........ ditissima – Anepisternum completely with pale pilosity.......... 17
17 Mesonotum with orange tinge; scutellum without black basal spots, at most slightly darker coloration............... munroi
– Mesonotum without orange tinge; scutellum with distinct black basal spots.................. millicentae sp. n.
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