Platensina fulvifacies Hering, 1941

David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Sachin, K., Gracy, R. G. & Salini, S., 2022, Two new species of Platensina Enderlein (Diptera, Tephritidae, Tephritinae, Dithrycini) from India, ZooKeys 1092, pp. 123-146 : 123

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1092.80645

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scientific name

Platensina fulvifacies Hering
status

 

Platensina fulvifacies Hering

Platensina fulvifacies Hering, 1941: 71. Type locality Lonaula, Maharashtra, India.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to P. acrostacta but can be differentiated primarily by the yellow face in males and larger basal spot in cell dm. Specimens were not available for study but photographs of both sexes have been examined: 2♂, 2♀, India: Rajasthan, Jodhpur District, 10 km SW Jodhpur, Machia Safari Pk, Malaise in dry wash 29.II-5.III.2008, 300 m, 26°18.60'N, 72°58.71'E (in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA).

Distribution.

This endemic Indian species is known only from Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Platensina

Loc

Platensina fulvifacies Hering

David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Sachin, K., Gracy, R. G. & Salini, S. 2022
2022
Loc

Platensina fulvifacies

Hering 1941
1941