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Posted by Nosferatumyia on 17-05-2009 15:10

An Anoplomus sp. or near that genus. I cannot find any known species with such a entirely white scutellum in combination with this type of wing pattern. Do you have other aspects of this monster?

Edited by Nosferatumyia on 17-05-2009 15:27

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 22-05-2009 14:53

Carpophthoracidia matsumotoi Shiraki 1968. Known from Ryukyu (Japan) and Guandong (China). A rare species of obscure taxonomic position - any alcohol-preserved material for DNA is welcome.

Edited by Nosferatumyia on 22-05-2009 17:26

Posted by chickenold on 23-05-2009 02:30

Thanks a lot!
Sorry that I did not keep the specimen...

This has also been discovered in Taiwan:
http://140.112.10...210105.pdf

Can you advise details of the article that mentioned its occurence in Guangdong?

Moreover there is a new species described this year, Carpophthoracidia bivittata, discovered in Zhuhai, Guangdong.
I will dig it out and have a look later.

Edited by chickenold on 23-05-2009 03:37

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 23-05-2009 08:18

The only record from the mainland was the Catalog and database of the fruit flies of the World (Norrbom et al., 1999), but I cannot trace any sources. Wang (1998(1996)) did not mention it from China at all. I am not of this year paper you mentioned above and should greatly appreciate any reference.

Posted by chickenold on 23-05-2009 12:47

Source advised by an entomologist, who thought it to be C. bivittata:

Xu miaofeng, Liao Li and Zhang Weidong, 2009. Two new species of Trypetinae from Guangdong, China (Diptera, Tephritidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 3491):69-72

Seems written in Chinese.

Edited by chickenold on 23-05-2009 12:50

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 23-05-2009 15:11

Yes, I have found the reference in the Internet, but cannot read even an English summary: certainly national pride of the authors was over the common sense... :( And I therefore doubt if bivittata is a good species. At least none of the authors is a real taxonomist and hardly seen the type of the compared species; anyway, there is a chance that both names are still the same, but I cannot judge about that.

Posted by Nosferatumyia on 23-05-2009 15:31

David L. Hancock & Richard A.I.Drew (New genus, species and synonyms of Asian Trypetinae (Diptera: Tephritidae). - Malaysian Journal of Sciences. - 1995. - 16A: 45-59) have already recorded this species based on 3 males and 1 female from Hong Kong Island, Taipokau, Kowloon, and Sheung Shui dist. However, the figure is poorly drawn and printed leaving an impression that the wing pattern is almost absent and the mesonotum ahving no reddish yellow vittae. However, both Shiraki's (1968) and Ito's (1984) descriptions of matsumotoi fit your specimen well.

Edited by Nosferatumyia on 23-05-2009 15:33

Posted by chickenold on 24-05-2009 11:36

#10

Nosferatumyia wrote:
Yes, I have found the reference in the Internet, but cannot read even an English summary: certainly national pride of the authors was over the common sense... :( And I therefore doubt if bivittata is a good species. At least none of the authors is a real taxonomist and hardly seen the type of the compared species; anyway, there is a chance that both names are still the same, but I cannot judge about that.

probably we shall conclude after going through the materials first.

Posted by Clive Lau on 12-05-2012 08:24

#11

I have put pictures of Carpophthoracidia matsumotoi I found from literature with image of suspected C. bivittata collected recently side by side for easy comparision. Apparently there are subtle difference to tell the two apart.

In Xu, Liao & Zhang's paper (Two new species of Trypetinae from Guangdong, China (Diptera, Tephritidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica34(1):69-72) the authors remarked that C. bivittata is similar to C. matsumotoi from Ryukyu Island but is clearly distinguishable from the latter by the scutum with only 2 longitudinal reddish yellow vittae (4 vittae in C. matsumotoi).

There is a good chance that both species are occurring in Hong Kong.