Coelopacidia strigata Bezzi, 1920

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 : 220

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3540600
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scientific name	Coelopacidia strigata Bezzi, 1920
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Coelopacidia strigata Bezzi, 1920 View in CoL

Coelopacidia strigata Bezzi, 1920: 218 View in CoL . (Type locality: Ruo River , Chiromo, Limbe, Malawi.) Coelopacidia vivax View in CoL : Copeland et al. 2005: 251 (Kakamega, Kenya) . [Misidentification] Coelopacidia sp. : Copeland et al. 2005: 251 (Kakamega, Kenya) . [Identity uncertain]

Distribution: Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe and northern South Africa. The type locality is in southern Malawi. Known South African localities are Rustenburg, Pretoria, RosslYn and Nelspruit (North West, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces: Munro 1929, 1933). Zimbabwean localities include Harare, Vumba, Chipinge and Chirinda Forest (Hancock 2003). Single records from Ghana (Obuasi) and Uganda (between Sezwa River and Kampala) were provided by Munro (1957). A western Kenya (Kakamega Forest) record of ‘ C. vivax ’ ( Copeland et al. 2005) is included here.

Host plant: Stems of Senecio scoparius in South Africa; larvae feed on the pith of the stem and pupate within the burrow (Munro 1929).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Tephritidae
Genus	Coelopacidia