Gastrozona fasciventris (Macquart, 1843)

Korneyev, S. V., Hauser, M., Borkent, C., Maples, B. K., Roubtsova, T. V., Zangpo, T., Dorji, S., Chophel, S., Dorji, N., Tsomo, Dendup, U., Dawa, K., Dorji, L., Dhimal, C. Mani, Kinley, R., Dorji, U., Dema, Y., Korneyev, V. A. & Gaimari, S. D., 2023, The Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) In Bhutan: New Faunistic Records And Compendium Of Fauna, Zoodiversity 57 (2), pp. 93-124 : 110

Gastrozona fasciventris (Macquart, 1843)

Material. Sarpang, 6.8 km NW Gelephu, ARDC orchards, 26.910° N, 90.433° E, 400 m, 23.08.2017, hand collecting, 2 Ơ, 5 Ơ, FFP17 BT071 ( CSCA18 M271) (M. Hauser leg.); 23 – 27.08.2017, Malaise trap, 1 ♀, FFP17 BT068 ( BHNPPC) ; 23.08.2017, hand collecting, 1 ♀ (M. Hauser leg.) FFP17 BT071 ; 23.08.2017, hand collecting, 1 Ơ, 3 ♀, FFP17 BT072 (C. Borkent) .

Host plants. It has been bred from shoots of Bambusa dolichoclada , B. glaucescens , B. oldhami , B. shimadai , B. stenostachya , B. tulda , B. tuldoides , B. vulgaris var. vulgaris , Dendrocalamus asper , D. giganteus , D. hamiltonii , D. latiorus , Gigantochloa auriculata , G. nigrociliata , Phyllostachys mackinoi , P. nigripes , P. pubescens and Thyrostachys siamensis ( Norrbom, 2022) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Bangladesh, Burma, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia (peninsular), Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam ( Hancock & Drew, 1999); Bhutan (first record).

Phytalmiinae : Acanthonevrini

Biology. Most species of the subfamily have saprophagous larvae living under the bark of fallen trees or inside bamboo culms ( Kovac & Streit, 1996; Dohm & Kovac, 2001; Korneyev & Ovtshinnikova, 2004; Dohm et al., 2008, 2014).