Coelopacidia Enderlein, 1911

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 : 215-216

Genus Coelopacidia Enderlein, 1911

Coelopacidia Enderlein, 1911: 442 . (Type species: Coelopacidia madagascariensis Enderlein , by original designation.) Stenotrypeta Enderlein, 1920: 338 . (Type species: Stenotrypeta torrida Enderlein , by original designation.)

Distribution: Afrotropical Region (mainland and Madagascar) and India.

Host plants: Larvae tunnel in the stems of Senecio and Cineraria ( Asteraceae : Senecionae), and Polemannia ( Apiaceae ).

Comments: Synonymy of Stenotrypeta under Coelopacidia was suggested by Munro (1957, 1960), but does not appear to have been formally indicated until Cogan and Munro (1980) listed them as such. Coelopacidia most resembles the Afrotropical genus Trypanophion Bezzi in being slender-bodied with almost completely hyaline or yellowish-tinted wings, in having 1 or 2 pairs of weak frontal and a single pair of orbital setae, two distinct apical spines on the mid tibia, no ventral spines on the femora and no sclerotized postcoxal metathoracic bridge. Coelopacidia differs in having 2 pairs of scutellar setae (1 pair [apicals] in Trypanophion ), an anepisternal seta present (absent in Trypanophion ) and with at most a whitish-pollinose medial stripe on the scutum (a distinct yellowish white medial vitta extending over scutellum in Trypanophion ). The latter genus is represented by the sole species T. gigas Bezzi, 1924 (= vestigiale Hering, 1941) from Cameroon, Uganda, western KenYa and Zimbabwe and was discussed bY Hancock (1986). The onlY known published illustrations were provided by Munro (1933, 1984) and David et al. (2013).