Tephritis maccus

Namin, Saeed Mohamadzade, Korneyev, Severyn V., Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad & Gilasian, Ebrahim, 2015, Revision of the Tephritis maccus species group (Diptera: Tephritidae) with description of a new species from Iran, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 589-599 : 590

Tephritis maccus species group

Diagnosis. The Tephritis maccus species group can be recognized among all other species groups of Tephritis by the following combination of characters: wing pattern radiate; basal cells hyaline; pterostigma brownish without hyaline spot; apical fork connected to main wing pattern (except some male specimens of T. urelliosomima ); cell r1 usually without or with only one large hyaline spot or indentation on anterior margin of wing (sometimes an additional small hyaline spot present); crossvein r-m in dark area; and aculeus moderately broad, sharply narrowing and pointed at extreme apex. The latter character occurs only in species of the T. maccus group and is believed to be a synapomorphy of this group of species.