Dacus (Neodacus) sphaeroidalis (Bezzi)

Mellesis sphaeroidalis Bezzi, 1916:115 .

Callantra sphaeroidalis Hardy, 1973: 11; Hardy, 1977: 46.

Dacus (Callantra) sphaeroidalis (in Liang et al., 1993: 139; Drew et al., 1998:629: Norrbom et al., 1998: 131).

Sinodacus chonglui Chao & Lin, 1996: 131 . (synonymised by Drew & Romig, 2013)

Dacus (Neodacus) sphaeroidalis (in Drew & Romig, 2013: 402) .

Material examined: 3♂♂, INDIA, Chandigarh, Panchkula, 12.ix.2009, Shakti Singh (NBAIR) .

Diagnosis: Male with epandrium and surstyli distinctly bulb-shaped (posterior view) (Fig. 7H). Lateral surstylus shorter than epandrium, apex of posterior lobe of surstylus blunt, 3 times longer than anterior lobe. Proctiger triangular and smaller than epandrium (Fig. 4T). Medial surstylus longer than lateral surstylus with well developed prensisetae. Phallus 3.7 mm long excluding glans (0.5 mm); 0.75 of glans sclerotized, preaputium patterned (Fig. 10R).