Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Tephritidae

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-02-2015 22:19
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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