Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae, Nepal
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 05-06-2016 21:07
#1
May 26, 2016, Rasuwa district, Dhunche env., about 2000m a.s.l. Wing length 6mm.
Posted by ValerioW on 05-08-2016 13:56
#2
It looks like a
Trypeta zoe female, but I have not a clear idea about nepalese species.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 15-08-2016 21:10
#3
Trypeta subrhomboidea S. Ito 2011; was described based on a single male, so this is the first known female picture. Please add it to the gallery!
Posted by John Carr on 15-08-2016 23:34
#4
Nosferatumyia wrote:
Trypeta subrhomboidea S. Ito 2011; was described based on a single male, so this is the first known female picture. Please add it to the gallery!
The wing markings of this fly are much more extensive than in the figure accompanying the description of
T. subrhomboidea.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 16-08-2016 07:14
#5
Many thanks to all for your comments. I've got that article by Ito (Esakia, 51: 1-45) and thought it's a
Cornutrypeta, impossible to identify from females.
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 16-08-2016 08:28
#6
John Carr, please consider that wing patterns in Trypeta zoe group are conspicuously dimorphic. It fits that concept very well.
Dmitry, there are clear DOUBLE orbital setae; furthermore, no such particular patterns in known Cornu.