Celidodacus coloniarum ( Speiser, 1915 )

Huangfu, Ning, Zhu, Chaodong & Chen, Xiaolin, 2019, A new species of Celidodacus Hendel, with notes on C. coloniarum (Speiser) and C. obnubilus (Karsch), Zoological Systematics 44 (3), pp. 240-246 : 241-243

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https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201919

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4617128

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scientific name

Celidodacus coloniarum ( Speiser, 1915 )
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Celidodacus coloniarum ( Speiser, 1915) View in CoL ( Figs 11–16 View Figures 11–16 )

Acidia coloniarum Speiser, 1915: 102 View in CoL . Type-locality: Tiko, Limbe, Cameroon; Sigitale, Tanzania.

Celidodacus coloniarum ssp. mendax Hering, 1940: 1 View in CoL . Type-locality: Manow, Tanzania.

Conradtina conjuncta Enderlein, 1920: 344 View in CoL . Type-locality: Equatorial Guinea.

Celidodacus coloniarum: Hancock, 1986: 299 View in CoL .

Redescription. Frons, gena, postgena and ventral part of occiput dark brown, dorsal part of occiput yellow-brown. Pleura dark, scutum ( Fig. 15 View Figures 11–16 ) red-brown with two narrow longitudinal black vittae and two pale brown bands; legs brown except femora almost black. Wing ( Fig. 13 View Figures 11–16 ) with isolated apical patch and 2 separate transverse black bands: apical patch having a hyaline spot in apex of cell r 4+5, subcostal band from pterostigma through vein BM-Cu to convergent point of vein Cu 2 and A 1; radial-medial band from wing anterior margin through crossvein R-M and almost reaching posterior edge of wing; subcostal band about twice as wide as radial-medial band; vein R 4+5 setulose to beyond crossvein R-M. Abdomen ( Fig. 16 View Figures 11–16 ) dark brown to black; tergites 1+2, 3 and 4 brown, tergites 5–6 black, tergites 1+2 with one pair vague medial yellow-brown patch; oviscape black, tapering and cylindrical, almost equal to combined length of tergites 5–6, middle width to length ratio about 0.5.

Material examined. 1♀ ( USNM), Kenya, Western Province , Kakamega forest, Malaise trap, 1550 m, 0°14′N, 34°51′E, 10–24 February 2007, leg. R. Copeland GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Mocambique.

Remarks. The species is first recorded in Kenya.

Enderlein, G. 1920. Zur Kenntnis tropischer Frucht-Bohrfliegen. Zoologische Jahrbucher, 43: 336 - 360.

Hancock, D. L. 1986. Classification of the Trypetinae (Diptera: Tephritidae), with a discussion of the Afrotropical fauna. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 49: 275 - 305.

Hering, E. M. 1940. Neue Arten und Gattungen. Siruna Seva, 1: 1 - 16.

Speiser, P. 1915. Beitrage zur Dipterenfauna von Kamerun. III. Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrtft, 1915: 91 - 106.

Gallery Image

Figures 11–16. Celidodacus coloniarum (Speiser, 1915), female. 11. Habitus, dorsal view. 12. Habitus, lateral view. 13. Wing. 14. Head, lateral view. 15. Scutum, dorsal view. 16. Abdomen, dorsal view.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Celidodacus