Goniurellia lacerata ( Becker, 1913 )

Singh, Maneesh Pal, Sneha, Sharma, Sharma, Isha, Gupta, Divender, Hancock, David Lawrence & Prabhakar, Chandra Shekhar, 2024, A new species of genus Oedaspis Loew and new distribution records of Acidiostigma Hendel & Goniurellia Hendel from India (Diptera: Tephritidae), Zootaxa 5514 (5), pp. 469-480 : 477

Goniurellia lacerata ( Becker, 1913)

( Figure 6A, B, E & F )

Trupanea lacerata Becker, 1913: 644 .

Diagnosis: A small sized (2.97 mm) dark greyish species with well developed chaetotaxy on head and thorax. Three frontal setae and 2 orbital setae, posterior orbital stubby white and shorter than anterior, ocellar setae crossed forming X-pattern, outer vertical stubby white and postocular thick stubby white. Thorax dark grayish, setose, with 3 darker lyrate vittae, full complement of thoracic setae except lacking apical scutellar setae. Entire scutum and abdomen covered in whitish setulae. All legs yellowish fulvous. Wings (2.75 mm) hyaline except reticulate pattern on wing apex. Dark black spot present in cell r2+3 confluent with vein R 4+5, circular oval spot present in cell r4+5 beside 6 irregular shaped hyaline spots ( Figure 6B ). Apical Y-shaped fork present in cell r4+5 and outer arms confluent with vein R 4+5 and M. Abdomen black except lateral margins of tergites I and II brownish. Narrow brownish band present on posterior end of tergites II–V, 5–6 long setae present on posterior margin of tergite V.

Genitalia: Epandrium elongated oval in posterior view, epandrium higher than proctiger, lateral surstylus longer than median surstylus, latter with dark spiny prensisetae, aedeagus 0.29 mm long excluding glans (0.12 mm) and apical lobe (1.28 mm), the latter unusually elongate ( Figure 6E & F ).

Material examined: 1 ♂, on Bidens pilosa L., INDIA, Himachal Pradesh, Solan, Nauni, 30°51’47” N 77°10’7”. 5.vi.2024, Maneesh Leg. at Zoological Survey of India ( HARC, Solan) .

Host plant: Not recorded in the region (possibly Pulicaria sp. ).

Distribution: Egypt: Sinai ( Freidberg & Kugler, 1989), Iran ( Mohamadzade Namin et al., 2018), and India: Himachal Pradesh (first record).

Figures

FIGURE 6. A & B: Goniurellia lacerata C & D: Acidiostigma bomiense, E: Male genitalia of G. lacerata and F: Glans of G. lacerata