Bactrocera (Bactrocera) kandiensis Drew & Hancock, 1994

Drew, R. A. I. & Hancock, D. L., 2022, Biogeography, Speciation and Taxonomy within the genus Bactrocera Macquart with application to the Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) complex of fruit flies (Diptera Tephritidae: Dacinae), Zootaxa 5190 (3), pp. 333-360 : 349

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) kandiensis Drew & Hancock

Bactrocera (Bactrocera) kandiensis Drew & Hancock, 1994: 31 . Holotype in BMNH.

Common Name: Sri Lankan Fruit Fly.

Definition: Face fulvous with a pair of large oval black spots; postpronotal lobes yellow with red-brown anterodorsal corners; notopleura yellow; scutum black with brown lateral margins and around notopleural suture; narrow parallel-sided lateral postsutural yellow vittae ending at ia. seta; medial postsutural yellow vitta absent; anepisternal stripe slightly wider than notopleuron dorsally; scutellum yellow with a moderately broad basal band; legs with femora fulvous with large areas of dark fuscous, fore and hind tibiae with fuscous coloration; wing with cells bc and c colourless, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, a narrow fuscous costal band confluent with R 2+3 and remaining narrow around apex or wing, a narrow fuscous anal streak, supernumerary lobe of medium development; abdominal terga III-V orange-brown with a narrow transverse black band across anterior margin of tergum III, a narrow fuscous to dark fuscous medial longitudinal band over all three terga and very small fuscous to dark fuscous anterolateral corners on terga IV and V, ceromata on tergum V orange-brown, abdominal sterna dark fuscous.

Distribution: Sri Lanka.

Hosts: Recorded from mango and Garcinia sp. in Sri Lanka ( Drew & Hancock, 1994).

Attractant: Methyl eugenol.

Comments: B. kandiensis is similar to B. caryeae in possessing narrow parallel-sided lateral postsutural vittae, dark colour patterns on the apices of femora and a narrow costal band confluent with R 2+3 and remaining narrow around apex of wing. It differs from B. caryeae in having a very narrow medial longitudinal dark band over abdominal terga III-V and narrow dark anterolateral corners on terga IV and V.