Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew, 1999

David, K. J., Noor Mahammed, N. R., Hancock, D. L., Gracy, R. G., Ningthoujam, Kennedy & Sushil, S. N., 2025, Taxonomic notes on Oriental bamboo-shoot fruit fly genus Acroceratitis Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Gastrozonini), with description of a new species from India, Zootaxa 5637 (1), pp. 83-98 : 96

Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew

( Figures 26 f−28f)

Acroceratitis tenmalaica Hancock & Drew, 1999: 659 .

Material examined: 1♀ INDIA, Tamil Nadu, Valparai , no date, Yeshwanth, H.M. ( UASB) .

Diagnosis. It is similar to A. parastriata and A. breviscapa in having a continuous costal band and its general colour pattern, but can be differentiated by dark fuscous discal band, fulvous postpronotal lobe and dark fuscous femora. Oviscape (1.70 mm long), flattened dorsoventrally, 15−20 elongate spicules on distal end of long eversible membrane (2.70 mm) ( Fig. 27f ), 2 tightly coiled black club-shaped spermathecae ( Fig. 28f ), aculeus tip (2.52 mm long) with broadly pointed apex and four pairs of preapical setae ( Fig. 26f ).

Comments: This species was originally described and illustrated except for postabdominal structures by Hancock & Drew (1999).

Figures

FIGURES 26−28. Female postabdominal structures of Acroceratitis. 26, Aculeus tip; 27, spicules on distal end of eversible membrane; 28, spermatheca. a, A. bimacula; b, A. ceratitina; c, A. distincta; d, A. histrionica; e, A. separata; f, A. tenmalaica; g, A. tomentosa.