Tritaeniopteron Meijere

David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Salini, S., Ningthoujam, Kennedy, Khemrajji, Hatwar Nikhil, Abhishek, V., Gracy, R. G. & Sushil, S. N., 2024, New species and new records of fruit flies of tribe Acanthonevrini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Phytalmiinae) from India, Zootaxa 5506 (3), pp. 301-321 : 308

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Genus Tritaeniopteron Meijere View in CoL

Tritaeniopteron Meijere, 1914: 209 View in CoL . Type species: eburneum Meijere, 1914, by monotypy.

Diagnosis: Predominantly yellow coloured, all body setae yellow; head with 1–2 pairs of frontal and 2 pairs of orbital setae; wing hyaline with brown oblique bands, cell sc much shorter than cell c; katepisternal seta well developed. Epandrium not sclerotised, elongate (longer than high), proctiger hyaline, higher than epandrium. Ovipositor with blunt aculeus tip and sensory setae, spermatheca oval-shaped. The five previously known species were reviewed and keyed by Hancock (2012a).

References

de Meijere, J. C. H. (1914) Studien uber sudostasiatischen Diptera. IX. [concl.]. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 57, 169 - 275.

Hancock, D. L. (2012 a) Bamboo-stem flies: An annotated key to the species of the Sophira complex of genera (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini). Australian Entomologist, 39 (1), 5 - 32.