Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering

David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Salini, S., Ningthoujam, Kennedy, Khemrajji, Hatwar Nikhil, Abhishek, V., Gracy, R. G. & Sushil, S. N., 2024, New species and new records of fruit flies of tribe Acanthonevrini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Phytalmiinae) from India, Zootaxa 5506 (3), pp. 301-321 : 316

Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering

( Figures 56–64 )

Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering, 1941: 25 .

Material examined: 1♀, INDIA: Meghalaya, Thangshalai, 1297 m, 250 27'N, 920 11'E, 05.vi.2013, Vinayaka , T ., Sweepnet ( UASB) ; 1♂, INDIA: Meghalaya, Umiam, 25.iv.2023, Kennedy Ningthoujam ( NIM) .

Diagnosis: Frons reddish-brown with two frontal and one orbital setae, face without any markings, combined length of pedicel plus flagellomere slightly shorter than face, ocellar triangle black with setae vestigial, medial and lateral vertical setae present, postocellar seta thin, postocular setae thin, black, occiput with broad black markings. Scutum reddish brown with yellow postpronotal lobe, black presutural areas around postpronotal lobe, black longitudinal line connecting postpronotal lobe and two prescutellar black spots; pleura and legs entirely yellow. Wing predominantly hyaline with discal band broad with a hyaline spot in cell br, subapical band fused with broad apical black patch. Tergites 1, 2 fully yellow/fulvous, tergites 3–4 with broad quadrate patches, tergite 5 entirely black. Epandrium sclerotised with elongate lateral surstylus as broad as epandrium, proctiger hyaline and larger than epandrium, glans of phallus quadrate, well sclerotised. Oviscape dark brown to black (0.97 mm), eversible membrane (1.00 mm) with 7–8 projections on spicules at distal end, aculeus (0.81 mm) with blunt tip and two pairs of long setae, spermatheca black, quadrate with small apical papilla.

Figures

FIGURES 56. Habitus (dorsal) of male of Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering.

FIGURES 57−64. Postabdominal structures of Phorelliosoma hilaratum Hering. 57, epandrium (lateral view); 58, epandrium (posterior view); 59, glans of phallus; 60, ovipositor; 61, spicules on distal end of eversible membrane; 62, aculeus; 63, aculeus tip; 64, spermatheca.