Trupanea kukunoria ( Hendel, 1927 ) Korneyev, 2016

Korneyev, S. V., 2016, On The Taxonomic Revision Of The Genus Tephritis (Diptera, Tephritidae): New Synonymy, Vestnik Zoologii 50 (1), pp. 31-38 : 36-37

Trupanea kukunoria ( Hendel, 1927) , comb. n. ( fig. 4 )

Tephritis kukunoria Hendel, 1927: 189 ; Hardy, 1968: 125; Norrbom et al., 1999: 217. — Trupanea pterostigma Wang, 1998: 307 , Korneyev & Ovchinnikova, 2004: 564, syn. n.

M a t e r i a l. Type. Lectotype ǫ Tephritis kukunoria , [ China: Qinghai Hu :] “Kuku-nor-Geb. / ded. 17.I.1894 / R. Tancré ”, “ Coll. Hendel ”; “Type ǫ” [D. E. Hardy’s handwriting on red paper], “ Tephritis / kukunoria / Hendel / marked by / D. E. Hardy, 1961” ( NHMW) (examined).

Discussion. This species was originally described in the genus Tephritis based apparently on one female (exact number of specimens not indicated explicitly; only the lack of information on the wing length and pattern variability possibly show that Hendel had a single female on hand). Study of the specimen in the NHMW collection clearly showed that it possess only 2 scutellar setae ( fig. 4 , 2 ), belongs in the genus Trupanea Shrank, 1795 , and is transferred to the latter genus here. In the key to Eastern Palaearctic species Trupanea species ( Korneyev & Ovchinnikova, 2004) it runs to Trupanea pterostigma Wang, 1998 and fits description of the female. I therefore consider both species names to be synonyms. Type localities of these nominal species are both in Qinghai Province c. 600 km from each other but lie in the same nature zone and on elevation 3500–4000 m.

This work is resulted from of the studies financially supported for the first author by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Grant No 13-04- 90909 in 2013, German Agency of Academic Exchange (DAAD) stipend in 2014 and Ukrainian stipend of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for young scientists in 2013–2015.

My sincere thanks are due to Valery A. Korneyev, the advisor of this work, for his valuable comments and reading this paper at its early stages, Olga G. Ovchinnikova and late Vera A. Richter for possibility to work with specimens deposited in ZISP, Joachim Ziegler, Jenny Pohl, Sven Marotzke and Bernhard Schurian for their assistance at MNKB, Peter Sehnal for his assistance in NHMW, Bernhard Merz for many prompts he left in the collections, Yuliia Dramaretska for inspiration, beautiful smile and the maxipack of Haribo Goldbären. I also want to thank the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their critical comments and corrections.

Figures

Fig. 4. Trupanea kukunoria, lectotype ǫ: 1 — habitus; 2 — scutellum; 3 — wing; 4 — labels.

Fig. 2. Paratypes of Tephritis epicrepis (1–5) and T. conyzifoliae (6–10), genitalic structures: 1, 6 — aculeus, ventral; 2, 7 — eversible membrane, ventral; 3, 8 — aculeus tip, ventral; 4, 9 — spermathecae; 5, 10 — phallus.