Ceratitis (Ceratalaspis) perisae, Meyer & Copeland, 2005
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930400004347 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4424D512-B915-3441-FE70-4161F5E7FD67 |
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Felipe |
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Ceratitis (Ceratalaspis) perisae |
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sp. nov. |
Ceratitis (Ceratalaspis) perisae View in CoL sp. nov.
( Figures 2 View Figures 1–5 , 8 View Figures 7–11 , 13 View Figures 12–17 )
Diagnosis
Arista with short rays; frons pale yellow, without silvery microtrichosity; two frontal setae; postpronotal lobe without a spot; scutal pattern with distinct black spots but latter strongly reduced; anepisternum completely yellow, with one anepisternal seta; wing bands with subapical band joined to discal band, and posterior apical band joined to anterior apical band; legs without feathering; abdomen without distinct spots, with grey band on tergites 2 and 4; apical part of aculeus with three large rounded indentations.
Description
Female. Head: antenna pale yellow. First flagellomere darker yellow; three times as long as pedicel. Arista with short rays, longest dorsal rays about as long as basal width of arista. Frons pale yellow; with short scattered yellow setulae; two frontal setae. Face white. Genal setulae darkish, poorly developed; genal seta reddish.
Thorax: postpronotal lobe yellowish white; without spot. Scutum ( Figure 2 View Figures 1–5 ), ground colour yellow-orange, with distinct brown to black markings but these restricted to intra-alar spot and spot linking dorsocentral and acrostichal prescutellar setae, sutural spot brownish, other dark markings pale brownish; prescutellar markings white, separate; with yellow microtrichosity and pilosity. Scapular setae black. Scutellum white, basally without black spots but with yellow-brown marking, apically with three separate black spots, extending to basal third. Subscutellum yellow with three separate black spots, touching along dorsal margin. Anepisternum yellow; one black anepisternal seta, setulae pale.
Legs: yellow; setation yellow to orange except last tarsal segments black. Fore femur with ventral setae yellow, posteriorly with longer pilosity.
Wing: pattern as in Figure 8 View Figures 7–11 ; bands mainly yellowish with some brown patches. Anterior apical and discal bands not separate; subapical band joined to discal band; posterior apical band joined to anterior apical band; crossvein R-M at proximal two-fifths of discal medial cell.
Abdomen: yellow to orange; pilosity mainly black. Tergites 2 and 4 with pale grey band occupying posterior third of tergite. Tergite 5 with longer black setulae along posterior margin. Oviscape shorter than preabdomen. Aculeus six to seven times longer than wide, apical part ( Figure 13 View Figures 12–17 ) with three large rounded indentations, tip with small depression.
Male. As female except for the following characters. First flagellomere pale yellow. Mesonotal pattern with sutural spot also pale brownish, male paratype of Ngaia Forest with very weak mediolongitudinal line postsuturally. Scutellum basally with yellow marking. Subscutellum with black spots separate. Wing, crossvein R-M at proximal third of discal medial cell.
Body length. 4.60 (4.50–4.70) mm.
Wing length. 4.83 (4.75–4.90) mm.
Type material
Holotype: ♀, Central Province , Kikuyu Escarpment, 21 September 1999, USAID sample 286, ex fruits Vepris simplicifolia , leg. R. S. Copeland . Paratypes: „ allotype, same data as holotype; 1 „, 1♀, Eastern Province , Ngaia Forest, upper part, 5 November 2003, USDA sample 2604, ex fruits Vepris simplicifolia , all leg. R. S. Copeland . Holotype and allotype deposited in the collections of NMK ; other paratypes in collection of KMMA .
Etymology
Named for Ms Peris Machera, an extraordinarily dedicated technician whose work was largely responsible for the success of the USAID and USDA projects that resulted in this new material.
Host plant
Reared from the fruits of Vepris simplicifolia (Engl.) Mziray (Rutaceae) .
Remarks
This species keys out to the connexa-argenteobrunnea couplet in the key of De Meyer (1998). It can be differentiated from the former by differences in number of frontal seta (always two pairs in perisae , one or three pairs in C. connexa (Bezzi)) and from the latter by the different mesonotal pattern. The aculeus shape indicates a relationship with C. argenteobrunnea Munro and with the C. andranotobaka Hancock species group as defined in De Meyer (1998) within the subgenus Ceratalaspis as well as with C. (Hoplolophomyia) cristata (Bezzi) . The host plant of perisae is also known to host C. cristata in the same region. It can be identified with the key provided by De Meyer (1998) given the following adjustment.
12 Male with one pair of frontal setae (sometimes two additional pairs of very small setae); female with three pairs of frontal setae......... connexa – Male and female always with two pairs of frontal setae....... 12a
12a Scutellum with well-defined black basal spots; black lateral presutural spots present.................. argenteobrunnea
– Scutellum without black basal spots, at most yellow-brown marking; lateral presutural spots absent............. perisae sp. n.
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