Cornutrypeta sp.

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 : 116

Cornutrypeta sp. nr. sesquitrifasciata Ito, 2011 ( fig. 17 )

Material. Thimphu, 3 km NNE Dochula , 27.518° N, 89.755° E, 2360 m, 19– 28.08.2017, Malaise trap, 1 ♀

( BHNPPC) FFP 17BT064 ( CSCA 18L204).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Bhutan (first record of the genus).

N o t e. This female specimen clearly is closely related to the Nepalese species C. sesquitrifasciata that has 5frontal and 2 orbital setae, short ocellar setae, and a wing pattern with a narrow but almost continuous discal (sensu White et al. 1999) crossband and a narrow, complete preapical crossband both reaching the posterior margin, in combination with the mesonotum entirely yellowish. The only known, holotype male of C. sesquitrifasciata has three anteriormost frontal setae very thickened and the two posterior setae conspicuously shorter, similar to the female from Bhutan. These specimens are possibly conspecific, but more precise identification must be based on another revision the genus Cornutrypeta based on more extensive material from the mountains of southeastern Asia. After the Han et al. (1993) and Wang (1998) revisions of Cornutrypeta species, Richter & Shcherbakov (2000) described Cornutrypeta svetlanae from Siberia which has a wide range of variability of frontal setae, as well as a dark wing and variation in body pattern which can be expected to occur in other species of the genus. Additional species described by Ito (2011) from Nepal must be also incorporated into wider keys to species. Taplejung, the type locality of C. sesquitrifasciata , is only 200 km west of the collecting site in Bhutan.

Figures

Fig. 17. Cornutrypeta sp. nr sesquitrifasciata ♀: a — left-side lateral view; b — dorsal view and detached abdomen; c —anterior view.