Anastrepha mucronota Stone

Norrbom, Allen L. & Korytkowski, Cheslavo A., 2011, New species of and taxonomic notes on Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae), Zootaxa 2740, pp. 1-23 : 5-7

Anastrepha mucronota Stone

Figs. 37–38

Anastrepha mucronota Stone 1942: 57 [description; Panamá]; Molineros et al. 1992: 16, 35 [host plants; Ecuador]; Bomfim et al. 2007: 220 [ Brazil]; Zucchi 2007: 84 [host plant].

Anastrepha nunezae Steyskal 1977a: 77 [description; surstylus, eversible membrane, aculeus tip; host plant; Colombia]; Núñez Bueno 1981: 175, 178 [host plant; Colombia]; Yepes & Vélez 1989: 81 [host plant]; Carrejo & González 1994: 89 [host plant; Colombia]. New synonym.

Distribution. Brazil (Tocantins), Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá and Perú.

Biology. Matisia cordata Bonpl. (= Quararibea cordata ) ( Bombacaceae ) has been reported as a host plant by multiple authors ( Steyskal 1977a, Núñez Bueno 1981, Yepes & Vélez 1989, Molineros et al. 1992, Carrejo & González 1994). Molineros et al. (1992) also recorded Annona cherimola Mill. (Annonaceae) as a "circumstancial" host, based on one rearing. Zucchi (2007) reported Salacia elliptica (Mart. ex Schult.) G. Don (Celastraceae) as a host in Brazil.

Type data. A. mucronota : Holotype Ψ ( USNM USNMENT 00053706), Panamá: El Cermeño [8°44'N 79°51'W], fruit fly trap, 21 Nov 1939, J. Zetek 4596. A. nunezae : Holotype Ψ ( USNM USNMENT 0005910), Colombia: Cundinamarca: Cachipay, 10 Dec 1973, L. Núñez, reared from fruit of Matisia cordata Bonpl.

Comments. In the original description of A. nunezae Steyskal (1977a) compared it only with A. greenei Lima. Females from Panama have on average longer female terminalia than those from Colombia (oviscape 4.57–5.40 mm long, mean = 4.99 mm, 1.28–1.40 times mesonotum length, mean = 1.36, n = 9, vs. oviscape 3.66–4.83 mm long, mean = 4.25 mm, 1.06–1.34 times mesonotum length, mean = 1.21, n = 10), but there is considerable overlap and we could find no other consistent or significant differences among specimens determined by Steyskal as A. nunezae and specimens of A. mucronota , including the holotypes of both species in the USNM. It is possible that these populations represent different species, but we regard the differences among them more likely to be geographic variation. We have treated these names as synonyms in a manuscript key ( Korytkowski 2004: 23, 121) for some years and here formally recognize this synonymy.

Figures

FIGURES 37 – 40. Male terminalia (epandrium, surstyli and proctiger, lateral; epandrium and surstyli, posterior): 37 – 38, A. mucronota (Colombia: Cachipay, USNMENT 00214070); 39 – 40, A. nolazcoae (USNMENT 00671195).