Acidoxantha totoflava Hardy

David, K. J., Singh, Shakti Kumar & Ramani, S., 2014, New species and records of Trypetinae (Diptera: Tephritidae) from India, Zootaxa 3795 (2), pp. 126-134 : 129-130

Acidoxantha totoflava Hardy

( Figs. 10–11 )

Material examined. 1♀, INDIA: Uttarakhand, Dehradun (New Forest), 9.iii.1946, on Bombax malabaricum (flower bud), Coll., F. Ent; 1♀, same data except, 13.iii.1946; 1♀, same data except 31.iii.1946; 1♂, same data except 31.iii.1946; 1♂, INDIA, Uttarakhand, Kaulaghar Tea Estate, 23.iii.1945, Coll.; F. Ent., on Bombax malabaricum ( FRI).

Discussion. This species has been adequately described by Hardy (1973). Known from Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam ( Hardy, 1987), it is recorded for the first time from India. Adults are predominantly yellow except for a pair of small, inconspicuous brown spots on hind margin of scutum behind prescutellar acrostichal seta and dumbbell shaped black marks on each side of postscutellum. Dorsocental seta placed well behind postsutural supra-alar seta. Tergites IV and V each with a pair of basomedial dark black spots and posterolateral black spots.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 11. Acidoxantha totoflava Hardy. 10, habitus male (Lateral view); 11, wing.