Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) diaphora (Hendel)

Drew, R. A. I., Romig, M. C. & Dorji, C., 2007, Records Of Dacine Fruit Flies And New Species Of Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) In Bhutan, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (1), pp. 1-21 : 10

Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) diaphora (Hendel)

Chaetodacus diaphorus Hendel, 1915: 425 , lectotype in MNM; Shiraki, 1933: 69.

Chaetodacus ater Chen, 1940: 131 . Preoccupied by atra Malloch, 1938: 113.

Dacus (Strumeta) diaphorus – Hardy, 1973: 40.

Dacus (Bactrocera) diaphorus – Hardy, 1977: 49; Tseng, Chen & Chu, 1992: 28.

Dacus (Zeugodacus) sicieni Chao & Lin, 1993: 77 . New name for ater Chen, 1940 .

Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) diaphora – Wang, 1996: 68; Norrbom et al., 1998: 102.

Material examined. – BHUTAN: 1 male (17 May.2000) , 1 male (26 Jul.2000), 2 males (16 Aug.2000), 2 males (6 Sep.2000), 1 male (12 Sep.2000), 1 male (20 Sep.2000), 1 male (27 Sep.2000), Rimchu trap No. 1, coll. C. Dorji ; 1 male (7 Jun.2000), 3 males (28 Jun.2000), 5 males (5 Jul.2000), 1 male (2 Aug.2000), 1 male (10 Aug.2000), Rimchu trap No. 1, coll. C. Dorji et al .; 5 males, Rimchu trap No. 1, 14 Jun.2000, coll. Nado ; 1 male, Rimchu trap No. 1, 21 Jun.2000, coll. Nado et al .; 2 males (21 May.2000), 1 male (24 May.2000), 2 males (28 Jun.2000), 1 male (26 Jul.2000), 3 males (10 Aug.2000), 2 males (16 Aug.2000), 1 male (30 Aug.2000), 1 male (6 Sep.2000), 1 male (27 Sep.2000), Rimchu trap No. 2, coll. C. Dorji ; 1 male, Tsirang, 17 Jul.2000, coll. S.D .; 1 male, Tsirang, 11 Sep.2000 ; 1 male, Lumitshawa , 24 May.2000, coll. C. Dorji ; 1 male, Lumitshawa , 10 May.2000, coll. B.S. Fletcher ; 1 male, Namling 16 km, 9 Jun.2001, coll. Brian Fletcher ; 1 male, Lingmethang , 9 Jun.2001, coll. Brian Fletcher. All specimens attracted to cue lure. Specimens in NPPC and QDPI .

Diagnosis. – A medium sized species; face shining black; postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow; scutum shining black; narrow lateral and medial postsutural vittae; a yellow spot anterior to mesonotal suture; mesopleural stripe reaching almost to anterior npl. seta dorsally; scutellum yellow with a dark fuscous to black apical spot enclosing apical setae; wing with a narrow dark fuscous costal band widening slightly across apex of R 4+5, a narrow fuscous cubital streak; cells bc and c colourless; microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only; abdominal tergum III entirely dark fuscous to black, terga IV and V dark fuscous except red-brown on posterior apex of tergum V.

Attractant. – Cue lure.

Distribution. – From India and Sri Lanka to China and across southeast Asia. New record for Bhutan.

Hosts. – No known record

Remarks. – Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) diaphora (Hendel) is similar to Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) yoshimotoi (Hardy) in possessing two sc. setae and yellow notopleura. It differs from this species in having the face entirely black and all femora with large areas of dark fuscous to black. It is not a pest species.