Tephritis urelliosomima Korneyev & Dirlbek

Namin, Saeed Mohamadzade, Korneyev, Severyn V., Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad & Gilasian, Ebrahim, 2015, Revision of the Tephritis maccus species group (Diptera: Tephritidae) with description of a new species from Iran, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 589-599 : 597

Tephritis urelliosomima Korneyev & Dirlbek

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Tephritis urelliosomima Korneyev & Dirlbek 2001: 476 ; Gilasian & Merz 2008: 13; Mohamadzade & Korneyev 2012: 83.

Material examined. Type material: Paratype, Turkmenistan, 1♀, 10 km S of Ashhabat, 23– 27.04.1987 (Antropov) ( SIZK); Allotype male: Iran: Yazd province, Manshad, 2150 m, 31°32’07N, 54°13’70E, 06.v.2010 (Mohamadzade); Non-type, Iran: 1♀, Khorasan Province, 1900 m; 1♂, Tehran Province, Tehran, Evin, 16.v.1970 (L.T.); 1♂, 1♀, Fars Province, Bamu, 1700m, 24.ix.1996 (Parch., Mogh. & Bar.) ( HMIM); 1♂, Yazd province, Manshad, 2150m, 31°32’07N, 54°13’70E, 06.v.2010 (Mohamadzade).

Distribution. Iraq, Turkmenistan ( Korneyev & Dirlbek 2001) and Iran ( Gilasian & Merz 2008).

Male description. Head Coloration as in T. gharalii . Length: height: width ratio = 1: 1.14: 1.57. Frons subquadrate, 1.6 as wide as eye, which is about 1.4 times as high as long. Gena 0.55 times as high as length of flagellomere 1. Flagellomere 1, 1.5 times as long as wide, pointed at apicodorsal angle.

Thorax: Coloration of thorax and legs as in T. gharalii .

Wing (Fig. 3): Base hyaline, including all of cells c, bm and bcu; apical portion with brown radiate mark, with few hyaline spots and indentations; pterostigma dark brown, cell r1 with one hyaline spot beyond pterostigma at level of crossvein r-m and reaching to vein R2+3 (in one male with small spot that reaches only mid-width of cell r1 and in another male without real spot and with lightening beyond pterostigma; in females this spot is usually absent, rarely with one small hyaline spot). Cell r2+3 brown with small hyaline dot distal to cell R2+3 apex and one apical spot, isolated from apical spot in cell r4+5 by narrow ray; cell br hyaline proximal to radial fork, in apical half completely dark, without hyaline spots. Cell r4+5 with round hyaline spot touching vein M between r-m and dm-cu, and apical spot wider than long, bordered by 2 narrow apical rays. Cell dm mostly dark brown, with narrow hyaline border at crossvein bm-cu and with one hyaline spot at level of r-m and small hyaline dot at apex. Cell m with 3 large hyaline spots, cell cu1 brown on anterior half. In one specimen apical ray on R2+3 completely reduced and ray on R4+5 present only as isolated brown spot at end of vein. Vein R4+5 with 4–5 setulae ventrally.

Abdomen: Black, tergites entirely microtrichose, with white setulae and yellow marginal setae. Oviscape shining black, with whitish setae on basal part; shorter than tergites 5 and 6 combined, its dorsum 1.3 times as long as tergite 6. Aculeus brown, 3 times as long as wide, rapidly tapered subapically to short, pointed apex ( Figs. 35– 38 ). Eversible membrane with two pairs of taeniae 0.3 times as long as membrane itself; on ventral side membrane with small scales ( Fig. 34 ). Spermathecae teardrop shaped ( Fig. 37 ) with narrowed neck. Epandrium oval, ( Fig. 39 ); glans short, mostly membranous ( Fig. 36 ).

Measurements. Female. BL. 4.3–4.7 mm, WL. 3.7–4 mm, AL. 0.85mm; Male. BL. 3.7–4 mm, WL. 3.5–3.8 mm.

Diagnosis. Tephritis urelliosomima is recognizable from all other species of the genus by absence of large hyaline spots in cell r1 beyond pterostigma or only one small or large hyaline spot is present (Figs. 3–4). In addition the base of the apical fork is broadly connected to the main pattern; and cell dm is dark with one hyaline spot at the level of crossvein r-m.

Figures

FIGURES 33 – 40. Tephritis urelliosomima, 33. Lateral habitus, Paratype, ♀. 34. Apex of oviscape and eversible membrane. 35. Aculeus. 36. Glans of phallus, lateral. 37. Spermatheca. 38. Aculeus apex. 39. Epandrium, posterior view. 40. Epandrium and hypandrium, lateral left view.