Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Tephritidae
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 26-02-2015 20:50
#1
Can anyone suggest a family for these two flies? Collected at light. Pretty sure they are male and female. Townsville, Queensland.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 04-03-2015 19:29
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 26-02-2015 20:50
#2
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Posted by Paul Beuk on 26-02-2015 20:54
#3
Anals cell extended ans the subcoste seems to be bent forward acutely: Tephritidae? Female abdome certainly points to a family in the Tephritoidea, too.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 26-02-2015 21:02
#4
Thanks Paul
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 26-02-2015 21:18
#5
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Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:19
#6
I believe it's
Hardyadrama excoecariae Lee, 1991 (Euphrantini, described from Singapore, present in Australia as far south as Mackay (as told in my sources)), also Andaman Islands and other coastal areas, rather wide-spread), develops in seeds of the mangrove
Excoecaria agallocha (Euphorbiaceae). Reduced chaetotaxy of head and thorax, legs distinctly armed with spines (front femora with 1 row of ventral spines, mid and hind femora with 2 rows of ventral spines), etc. Description in Lee, 1991 (Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 39: 105-118), additional data in Permkam & Hancock, 1995 (Australian Trypetinae: Invertebr. Taxon. 9: on
Hardyadrama pp. 1169-1176).
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:24
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:25
#7
Key to genera of Euphrantini (from Permkam & Hancock, 1995)
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:26
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:27
#8
Key to species of
Hardyadrama (op.cit.)
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 26-02-2015 22:37
#9
Thanks Dmitry, wonderful. We live just a kilometre from the mangroves.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:56
#10
I might be very wrong Graeme (as it happened before), so let's wait for Valery and his verdict... :)
Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:57