Javadacus Hardy

Singh, Maneesh Pal & Hancock, David Lawrence, 2025, Two new species of genus Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) from northern Himalayas and new records of host plants, distribution or variation in three other species in India, Zootaxa 5666 (2), pp. 175-194 : 186

Subgenus Javadacus Hardy

Dacus (Javadacus) Hardy, 1983: 26 . Type species Dacus (Javadacus) montanus Hardy, 1983 , by original designation.

Diagnosis: Male abdominal sternite V with a slight posterior emargination; posterior lobe of male surstylus long; pecten of cilia on abdominal tergite III of male present (except in B. mukiae Drew & Romig ). Postpronotal setae absent (except weakly present in B. hatyaiensis Drew & Romig ); supra-alar setae present or absent; prescutellar acrostichal setae present or absent; 1 or 2 pairs of scutellar setae. Scutum with medial and lateral postsutural yellow vittae and either presutural extensions or ( B. connexa (Hardy) and B. flavolateralis Drew & Romig ) narrow presutural lateral yellow vittae. The presutural extensions triangular and united with the notopleural lobes in 4 species (weakly in B. cucurbitae (Coquillett)) . Abdomen with tergite I not quadrate ( Hancock & Drew, 2018).