Goniurellia, Hendel, 1927

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

Keys to species of the genus Goniurellia from India

1. Wing pattern reticulate with a narrow dark ray from apex of pterostigma to r-m crossvein, not broadly infuscated subapically and in and below pterostigma; hyaline indentation in cell r1 beyond apex of pterostigma broadly crossing vein R 2+3 and cell 4+5 ( Egypt: Sinai, Iran and India)......................................................... G. lacerata (Becker)

- Wing pattern broadly infuscated subapically and in and below pterostigma; hyaline indentation in cell r1 beyond apex of pterostigma narrowly crossing vein R 2+3 and not crossing cell 4+5 ( Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and NE India [ Agarwal and Sueyoshi, 2005])........................................................................ G. tridens (Hendel)

[Note: A third species, G. persignata Freidberg (= ceylonensis Freidberg), is known from North Africa and Ethiopia to Turkmenistan and from Sri Lanka and possibly occurs in India. It is similar to G. tridens but the hyaline indentation in cell r1 beyond apex of pterostigma does not cross vein R 2+3 or enter cell r4+5; both species were illustrated by Freidberg (1980)]