Soita psiloides Walker, 1865

Chen, Xiao-Lin, Norrbom, Allen, Freidberg, Amnon, Chesters, Douglas, Islam, Md Sajedul & Zhu, Chao-Dong, 2015, A systematic study of Ichneumonosoma de Meijere, Pelmatops Enderlein Pseudopelmatops Shiraki and Soita Walker (Diptera: Tephritidae), Zootaxa 4013 (3), pp. 301-347 : 336

Soita psiloides Walker, 1865

( Figs.143–150 )

Soita psiloides Walker, 1865: 136 ; Hardy, 1959: 197; Hardy, 1983: 204; Hardy and Foote, 1989: 522; Permkam and Hancock, 1995: 1140 –1142. Type-locality: Indonesia. Salawati I., Irian Jaya. (HT ♂ BMNH).

Diagnosis. Head ( Figs. 148–149 ) entirely yellow to brown, usually lacking dark spots on occiput, frons or face, but 3 of Papua New Guinea specimens with a vague medial dark mark on frons; 1 pair of strong and strap like orbital setae and 2–3 pairs of small frontal setae. Thorax ( Fig. 145 ) entirely yellow to yellow-brown; postpronotal, postalar, dorsocentral, anterior supra-alar, and presutural setae dark brown to black; notopleural, anepisternal, anepimeral and katepisternal setae yellow to yellow-brown. Mid tibia with 3 ventral setae at apex, 2 moderately long, 1 short. Scutellum with 1 pair of setae. Anepisternum and katepisternum without row of short black spines. Wing ( Fig. 144 ) almost hyaline except pterostigma brownish yellow apically and slight infuscation bordering apices of veins R2+3, R4+5 and Cu l. Abdomen ( Fig. 147 ) entirely fulvous. Female with oviscape short, scarcely longer than wide. Aculeus short and thick, with 4 sharp toothlike points at apex, and minute serrations on apical margins ( Fig. 150 ). Three elongate spermathecae. Male genitalia with surstyli short and thick, covered with fine, pale hairs ( Fig. 146 ).

Distribution: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia (northeast Queensland).

Specimens examined: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Silkwood, nr Innisfail, 30 December 1958, D.K. McAlpine, 1♂ (AMS, No.264547, dissected). PAPUA NEW GUINEA: SE Mamai Pltn., E of port Glasgow, 150m, 10 February 1965, R. Straatman, Light Trap, 1♀ 1 ♂ (BPBM, both dissected); Central P., Lomaricr, 20 September 1981, J.W. Ismay, rainforest 1♀ (BPBM, dissected); East Sepik Province: Amboin patrol Post, Karawari Lodge, February 1983, A. C. Messer, 1 ♂ (USNM).

Figures

FIGURES 143 – 150. Soita psiloides. 143. Habitus (male), lateral view; 144. Wing; 145. Head and scutum, dorsal view; 146. Epandrium and surstyli, lateral view; 147. Abdomen, dorsal view; 148. Head, lateral view; 149. Head, frontal view; 150. Aculeus, dorsal view.