Rhagoletis sp.

Korneyev, V. A., Mishustin, R. I. & Korneyev, S. V., 2017, The Carpomyini Fruit Flies Diptera: Tephritidae Of Europe Caucasus And Middle East: New Records Of Pests With Improved Keys, Vestnik Zoologii 51 (6), pp. 453-470 : 467-468

Rhagoletis sp. near obsoleta ( figs 5 , 8; 7, 2)

Material. Israel: Mt Hermon , 33.38N, 35.83E, 1600 m, on Lonicera arborea , 18.07.1995, 1 Ơ, 1 ♀, idem, ex berries of L. arborea , 3.08.1995 — exit 05.1996, 2 ♀ (A. Freidberg), idem, 165o m, 17– 18.07.1995, 2 Ơ (I. Yarom) ( SIZK) .

Remarks. The specimens from Mt. Hermon precisely fit the characters of R. obsoleta (all the femora and abdominal tergites black, wing with four wide dark brown crossbands, without traces of the accessory band). Apparently all the specimens in this locality and the only population of a Rhagoletis species known from Israel do not vary in their wing patterns (unlike the European R. cerasi / R. obsoleta ), but it has not been ever recorded in the literature due to its dubious species identity. It is quite possible that this geographically isolated population represents a new species.

Further molecular analysis and comparison with European species is necessary.

Figures

Fig. 5. Rhagoletis spp. mesonotums (1–8), dorsal view, and head (2), lateral view: 1 — R. completa; 2 — R. bagheera; 3 — R. berberidis; 4 — R. cerasi; 5 — R. flavicincta; 6 — R. flavigenualis; 7 — R. obsoleta, Myhiia; 8 — R. sp. near obsoleta, Mt. Hermon.