Bactrocera (Bactrocera) robertsi Drew

Drew, R. A. I., Ma, Jing, Smith, S. & Hughes, J. M., 2011, The Taxonomy And Phylogenetic Relationships Of Species In The Bactrocera Musae Complex Of Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) In Papua New Guinea, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 59 (2), pp. 145-162 : 154

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) robertsi Drew

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) robertsi: Drew, 1989: 42–43 .

Diagnosis. – A medium sized species (wing length 7.0 mm); face with dark facial spots either absent or very small and pale; scutum black; postpronotal lobe yellow; notopleuron with anterior 1 / 3 to 1 / 2 black and remainder yellow; each lateral postsutural vitta broad and narrowing slightly posteriorly to end before ia. seta; mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and postpronotal lobe dorsally; wings with cell bc pale fulvous and cell c fulvous, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, fuscous costal band confluent with R 2+3 and of uniform colouration, broad fuscous cubital streak; legs fulvous except hind tibiae fuscous; terga III–V red-brown with a narrow transverse fuscous to dark fuscous band across anterior margin of tergum III and fuscous on lateral margins of all three terga and a narrow medial longitudinal fuscous to black band over all three terga, shining spots red-brown.

Attractant. – Cue lure.

Hosts. – No known record.

Distribution. – Type locality: Papua New Guinea (Wau, Morobe Provice).

Previously recorded: Papua New Guinea (Central, Morobe and Western Highlands Provinces) .