Perilampsis miratrix Munro, 1980

Meyer, Marc De, 2009, Taxonomic revision of the fruit fly genus Perilampsis Bezzi (Diptera, Tephritidae), Journal of Natural History 43 (39 - 40), pp. 2425-2463 : 2452-2453

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903207868
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scientific name	Perilampsis miratrix Munro
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Perilampsis miratrix Munro View in CoL

( Figure 2E View Figure 2 )

Perilampsis miratrix Munro, 1939b, p. 146 View in CoL .

Perilampsis diademata: Munro, 1929 View in CoL (erroneous identification, morphology); Munro, 1939a (erroneous identification).

Perilampsis miratrix: Cogan and Munro, 1980, p. 530 View in CoL (Afrotropical catalogue); Norrbom et al., 1999, p. 186 (world catalogue).

Diagnosis

Arista pubescent; scutum with two transverse bands; postpronotum white; scutellum white; anatergite and katatergite brown with median white spot; legs yellow with femora yellow-brown or brown; wing, anterior apical band complete, touching discal band, posterior apical band present, discal band nearly, but not reaching posterior margin; abdomen mainly shining black-brown.

Description

Head. Antennal segments brown. Arista short pubescent, longest rays at most equal to width of base of arista. Frons ventral half yellow-white, dorsal part yellow to brown. Two frontals, placed parallel to medial eye margin; two orbitals, placed slightly convergent with anterior orbital located more medially. Face white, brown near antennal implant. Occiput yellow, with two darker, largely confluent, patches in dorsal part.

Thorax. Scutum shining brown; pale dispersed pilosity, two transverse bands with silvery pilosity and microtrichosity, one anteriorly of transverse suture, second band near dorsocentrals. Postpronotum white. Anepisternum brown, with white band occupying posterodorsal part, its ventral margin reaching posteroventral corner or almost so; with pale pilosity; one anepisternal seta. Anatergite and katatergite brown,

medially each with white spot, slightly touching. Scutellum white. Subscutellum brown. Legs pale yellow, mid femur brown, fore and hind femora yellow-brown.

Wing ( Figure 2E View Figure 2 ). Wing bands brown, well developed. Basal part of wing brown, subbasal irregular spots and streaks present. Anterior apical band completely filling cells r 1 and r 2+3. Posterior apical band touching anterior apical band. Subapical band isolated. Discal band nearly, but not reaching posterior wing margin; touching anterior apical band near pterostigma; largely merged with subbasal spots and streaks. R-M ratio 0.84.

Abdomen. Shining dark brown, posterior half to three-fourths of tergites 2 and 4 with greyish band, anteriorly more yellow-orange; tergite 5 largely yellow-orange, anterolaterally dark brown.

Female. As male except for the following characters: white spots on katatergite and anatergite more outspoken. All femora brown. Abdominal tergites 2 and 4 only with greyish band, no yellow-orange margin anteriorly: tergite 5 brown, only posteromedially yellow. Female terminalia, oviscape longer than abdominal tergites, shining orange, with black pilosity. Aculeus orange, more than 20 times longer than wide; aculeus tip as in Figure 4J View Figure 4 , narrow, pointed.

Body length. 3.60–3.90 mm; wing length 3.85–4.30 mm.

Material examined

Holotype. 3, ZIMBABWE: Bulawayo, 19.I.1927, R.H. Stevenson ( SANC).

Paratypes. ZIMBABWE, same locality as holotype, 1♀, 27.IV.1927 (24.VII in Munro 1939b); 1♀, 1.V.1927, all R.H. Stevenson ( SANC) .

Other material examined. MOZAMBIQUE, 13, Maputo, 15.II.2008, methyl eugenol trap, D. Cugala ( KMMA) .

Distribution

Mozambique, Zimbabwe.

Comments

The type specimens were first identified by Munro (1929, 1939a) as being P. diademata but later considered to be a separate species ( Munro 1939b). It was recently caught in a methyl eugenol trap in Mozambique.