Carpophthorella sookae, Chua, 2003

Chua, T. H., 2003, New bamboo-shoot flies from Peninsular Malaysia (Diptera: Tephritidae: Ceratitidinae), Journal of Natural History 37 (4), pp. 463-472 : 465-468

Carpophthorella sookae new species

( figures 1 , 2 )

Material examined

Malaysia: Holotype 3, Hulu Langat , Selangor, 30 October 1995, C. S. Ooi ( BMNH); 1♀ paratype, Hulu Langat, Selangor, 7 August 1998, Bazlin and T. H. Chua ( BMNH); 1♀ paratype, Fraser’s Hill, Perak, 1 December 1995, C. S. Ooi ( IBS / UM); 13 paratype, Hulu Langat, Selangor, 30 October 1995, C. S. Ooi ( IBS / UM).

Description

Male. Length of body 5.8 mm, of wing 5.5 mm.

Head: ratio length: height: width, 1:1.6:1.9; fulvous except upper occipital area largely black. Setae brown to golden brown: 18–19 pairs frontal (one paratype has 24 pairs) and two pairs orbital setae; ocellars absent; vertical and postocellars well developed; postverticals absent. Occiput not swollen, with a row of black postocular setae. Genal seta weak. Face whitish. Antennae orange-brown, shorter than face; third segment dorsoapically rounded; aristae short-plumose.

Thorax: scutum fulvous in ground colour, with following bands: a black brown M-shaped band anteriorly between postpronotal lobes, a yellow band from transverse suture ending just before intra-alar seta, a yellow area between dorsocentral setae and ending at acrostichal setae, a blackish brown posterior transverse band before scutellum and extending laterally anterior to wing bases; postpronotal lobes whitish, unspotted, continuing as a broad band along upper part of anepisternum. With a full complement of mostly brown to golden brown setae: four scapulars (outer black), one postpronotal, two notopleurals, one presutural supra-alar, one postsutural supra-alar, one postalar, one intra-alar, two dorsocentral, two acrostichal, two anepisternal, one anepimeral and four scutellars. Acrostichal, intraalar, postalar almost in a straight line. Pleura mostly fulvous; anatergite and katatergite whitish, narrowly brown posteriorly; mediotergite blackish brown. Scutellum yellow. Hateres whitish.

Legs fulvous; fore femur with a ventral row of five or six fine brown setae on apical half; mid-tibia with an apical black spine; hind femur with a few fine blackish setae dorsoapically.

Wing with costal band broad, extending a little below apex of cell bm basally, brown; cells bc, c and sc hyaline except area around apex of subcostal vein brownish; three small hyaline indentations present as follows: one at apex of cell sc, one at apex of cell r, and one in upper part of cell r. Subapical band united with costal 1 2+3

band, band across DM-Cu crossvein reaching wing margin, extending basally to near apex of vein Cu +A. Veins R and R setose, R-M crossvein placed behind 2 1 1 4+5

middle of cell dm, a little behind apex of cell sc; cell bcu apically acuminate.

Abdomen fulvous; with a short medial blackish brown band in tergum V.

Female. Description as for male except for the following differences.

Length of body (including oviscape) 6.5 mm, of wing 5.3 mm.

Head: ratio length: height: width, 1:2.0:1.6; fulvous except for crescent area dorsal to lunule orange-brown and upper occipital area largely black. Setae black: 13–15 pairs frontal and two pairs orbital setae. Genal seta well developed.

Thorax: scutum brownish black to black.

Legs fulvous; fore femur with a ventral row of six or seven fine brown setae on apical half.

Wing with costal band dark brown; all cells dark brown; R-M crossvein placed almost middle of cell dm, a little beyond apex of cell sc.

Abdomen with terga I–II brown, terga III–VI black and a large fulvous medial area on terga V–VI; oviscape a little shorter than terga III–VI combined. Aculeus elongate, narrowing to a blunt point apically, with numerous subapical serrations on both sides.

Host plants Females are attracted to cut bamboo shoot.

Distribution Known only from Peninsular Malaysia. Etymology

The specific name is after my daughter, Sook-Ning, for her company during my field trips and her interest shown in my research in fruit flies.

Remarks

The female of this species was illustrated and provisionally identified as the female of C. semipennata by Hancock and Drew (1999: figure 27).

Figures

FIG. 1. Male Carpophthorella sookae sp. nov.

FIG. 2. Female Carpophthorella sookae sp. nov.