Coelopacidia species

Hancock, David L., 2019, Comments on the genus Coelopacidia Enderlein (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae: Adramini), with a key to known species, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 49 (2), pp. 215-222 : 216-217

Key to known Coelopacidia species

1 Pterostigma black; scutum without a whitish pollinose medial stripe; postvertical seta present; dm–cu crossvein not infuscated ...................................................2

– Pterostigma Yellow; scutum [where recorded] with a whitish pollinose medial stripe; postvertical seta often weak or absent; dm–cu crossvein often narrowly infuscated...........................................................................................................3

2 Presutural, dorsocentral and prescutellar acrostichal setae present; 2 pairs of frontal setae; wing apex without a distinct apical infuscation [ South Africa]..... .......................................................................................... C. marriotti (Munro)

– Presutural, dorsocentral and prescutellar acrostichal setae absent; 1 pair of frontal setae; wing apex with a distinct apical infuscation [ Malawi] ........................ ....................................................................................... C. melanostigma Bezzi

3 Wing apex without a distinct apical infuscation, at most with a narrow, linear costal band ( Fig. 2)............................................................................................4

– Wing apex with a distinct apical infuscation ( Figs 3, 4)....................................6

4 Dorsocentral setae well developed and at level of supra­alar setae [ Tanzania]... ......................................................................................... C. torrida (Enderlein)

– Dorsocentral setae absent...................................................................................5

5 Fore femur with a long and distinct apicoventral seta ( Fig. 5) [ Madagascar] ..... .......................................................................... C. madagascariensis Enderlein

– Fore femur with a short and indistinct apicoventral seta ( Fig. 6) [ KenYa].......... ............................................................................................. C. carinata Hendel

6 Dorsocentral setae well developed and at level of supra­alar setae [ Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon] ....................................................... C. punctum (Enderlein)

– Dorsocentral setae weak and hair­like or absent, if present and distinct then placed posterior to line of supra-alar setae ( Fig. 1)...........................................7

7 First antennal flagellomere blackish brown; scutum with medial pollinose stripe narrow throughout [ Kenya, Tanzania]................................... C. apicalis Hendel

– First antennal flagellomere fulvous; scutum with medial pollinose stripe twice as broad posterior to mesonotal suture as anterior to it.....................................8

8 Brown apical spot subtriangular and as broad as tall in apical part of cell r 2+3 ( David et al. 2013: figs 57, 59) [ India]...............................Undescribed species

– Brown apical spot distinctlY narrower than tall in apical part of cell r 2+3 (Munro 1933: pl. III, fig. 2)............................................................................................9

9 Dorsocentral setae distinct and moderate to strong ( Fig. 1); 2 pairs of frontal setae; infuscation on dm–cu crossvein distinct [southern coastal South Africa] ................................................................................................ C. vivax (Munro)

– Dorsocentral setae weak and hair­like or absent; 1 pair, rarelY 2, of frontal setae; infuscation on dm–cu crossvein indistinct and pale [ Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, northern South Africa] ............................ C. strigata Bezzi spal

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