Rhagoletis mongolica Kandybina, 1972

Korneyev, S. V., Smith, J. J., Hulbert, D. L., Frey, J. E. & Korneyev, V. A., 2022, A New Species Of Rhagoletis (Diptera, Tephritidae) From Switzerland, With Discussion Of Its Relationships Within The Genus, Zoodiversity 56 (1), pp. 1-20 : 15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15407/zoo2022.01.001

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F742168B-14A5-4286-BD2D-D68320E6D26F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6456152

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2B1C8781-C23F-6F2E-FF4D-89DAFC01580B

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Rhagoletis mongolica Kandybina, 1972
status

 

Rhagoletis mongolica Kandybina, 1972 View in CoL

Kandybina, 1972: 913 (description), 1977 (larva; distribution; host plants; new records); Korneyev & Merz, 1997: 63 (key); Norrbom et al., 1999: 201 (catalogue); Korneyev & Ovchinnikova, 2004: 482 (key).

Comments. This species was originally described based on a single female and a third instar larva reared from Juniperus sabina L. in Mongolia ( Kandybina, 1972). Later, the larva was redescribed based on material from the same host plant in Kyrgyzstan ( Kandybina, 1977). The adult specimens from Kyrgyzstan were briefly described as having completely black femora and partly black tibiae; neither their male nor female genitalia have been described. We therefore consider R. mongolica to have entirely yellow femora as in the holotype, and the Kyrgyz specimens to be likely non-conspecific. The geographically “intermediate form” from Kyrgyzstan must be analyzed to clarify its taxonomic position and molecular differences from both R. mongolica and R. merzi .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

Genus

Rhagoletis

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