taxonID	type	description	language	source
AA1987FEFFD7C04C28AA0774C665FC98.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Rhabdochaeta pulchella Meijere 1904, by monotypy.	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD7C04C28AA0774C665FC98.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: Rhabdochaeta can be differentiated from other genera of Schistopterini by the wing pattern with white filling in rays; absence of submedian pair of erect setulae on abdominal tergites, vein M 1 convex beyond the crossvein dm-m; apex of lateral surstylus not acute in lateral view.	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD7C04928AA035CC7F8FF6E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: Rhabdochaeta octomaculata Nikhil & David, sp. nov. is similar to R. gladifera in wing pattern, but can be differentiated by the nearly straight crossvein dm-m (Figs 1,6), abdomen with a pair of dark spots on each tergites medially (Fig. 5), aculeus rounded apically (Figs 10,11), eversible membrane with broad rounded spicules toward proximal end (Fig. 13) oval spermatheca (Fig. 12) and semicircular spicules toward distal end (Fig. 14) whereas in R. gladifera crossvein dm-m is prominently convex distally (Fig. 8), abdomen uniformly dark without medial dark spots (Fig. 7), aculeus flat apically (Figs 16, 17), eversible membrane with oblong-shaped spicules toward proximal end (Fig. 19), round spermatheca (Fig. 18) and conical spicules toward distal end (Fig. 20) (David et al. 2022).	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD7C04928AA035CC7F8FF6E.taxon	description	Description: Head (Figs 1, 2): slightly higher than long (0.60 mm high; 0.54 mm long); scape and pedicel fulvous, postpedicel conical, pointed at apex, arista longer than first flagellomere; face fulvous with carina, parafacial with transverse black mark near compound eye; frons fulvous, wider than long (0.34 mm high; 0.42 mm wide) with 3 pairs of frontal setae (1 st pair short; 2 nd pair 3 × longer than 1 st, black basally, brownish apically; 3 rd pair lanceolate, stubby and black), 2 pairs of orbital setae placed obliquely to frontal setae (1 st pair brown to black, 2 nd pair white, shorter than first) and 1 pair of long white interfrontal setae. Ocellar triangle grey with 1 pair of white ocellar setae adjacent to ocellar triangle. Vertex fulvous with 1 pair of black, elongate medial vertical setae, 1 pair of short, lateral vertical setae, 1 pair of postocellar setae, 2 pairs of short, stubby white paravertical setae and well-developed white and black postocular setae. Gena fulvous with all white setae except one prominent black seta. Thorax (Figs 1, 3, 4): Scutum (length 0.74 mm; width 0.79 mm) grey, covered with dense white tomentum, scattered white setulae and well-developed chaetotaxy: 1 postpronotal lobe, 1 presutural supra-alar, 1 anterior notopleural, 1 posterior notopleural (black), 1 postsutural supra-alar, 2 dorsocentral, 1 postalar, 1 intra alar. All setae brown except black posterior notopleural. Scutellum (0.26 mm long, 0.51 mm wide) golden yellow with long brown basal scutellar setae and small white apical scutellar setae (often crossed), 1 pair of white erect setae present dorsally between basal and apical scutellar setae; white setae before and after basal scutellar setae. Anepisternum predominantly fulvous with black prominent marking medially, one prominent brown seta dorsally; anepimeron grey with yellow tomentum; katepisternum grey with yellow tomentum and white seta dorsally; anatergite, katatergite, subscutellum with white tomentum, mediotergite grey to black. Legs (Fig. 1): coxa, trochanter fulvous, fore femur with a single, broad preapical black marking with 5 ventral setae (2 black anterior, 3 white posterior), mid femur and hind femur with 2 black rings (each basally and apically), hind tibia with one black ring basally. Wing (Figs 1, 6): 2.29 mm long, oval shaped, with broad dark central area and five prominent radiating rays. Cells bc and c hyaline with a transverse brown band in cell c; subcostal cleft prominent and guarded by 2 black costal setae. Veins and rays ending in dark transverse marking on costal and subapical region. Vein R 1 setulose, vein R 4 + 5 sparsely setulose basally. Cell r 1 with three prominent rays, white hyaline streak prominent inside the rays; two hyaline spots adjacent to basal ray. Cell r 2 + 3 with a single basal hyaline spot, two hyaline spots medially and two rays; basal ray reaching costa along the vein R 2 + 3 apically, 2 nd ray reaching obliquely; cell br with 5 hyaline spots (1 spot white with surrounding dark area). Cell r 4 + 5 with a brown elongate, bulla touching vein R 4 + 5 adjacent to crossvein r-m, white spot beneath bulla surrounding the black area; apical rays from vein R 4 + 5 and vein M 1 not reaching to the central dark area; isolated medial, apical transverse band present. Cell bm hyaline; cell dm with small brown bulla basally and dark-brown, oval shaped bulla with prominent 7 – 8 hyaline spots adjacent to bulla; cell m 1 with light brown bulla basally adjacent to crossvein dm-m with hyaline spot apically. Cell cu and anal lobe with dark reticulate pattern, cell cua hyaline without acute extension, crossvein dm-m nearly straight. Female abdomen (Fig. 5): abdomen (length 0.83 mm, width 0.88 mm) dark brown with scattered setulae, tergites 1 – 5 with a pair of medial dark spots, tergite 6 glossy black with yellow marking medially and 1 prominent black seta dorsoapically on each side. Female genitalia (Figs 9 – 14): Oviscape brown (0.89 mm), with prominent dark brown patches near the base; eversible membrane (0.63 mm) as long as aculeus with broad rounded spicules toward proximal end and semicircular spicules toward distal end; aculeus rounded apically; two oval spermathecae (0.70 mm). Total body length: Female (2.33 mm).	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD7C04928AA035CC7F8FF6E.taxon	biology_ecology	Host plant: Unknown	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD7C04928AA035CC7F8FF6E.taxon	materials_examined	Type material: Holotype ♀, India: Jharkhand, Garhwa, Bishunpur, 24.153752 ˚ N, 83. 789021 ˚ E, 14. iii. 2024, Hatwar, N. K. (NIM).	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD7C04928AA035CC7F8FF6E.taxon	distribution	Distribution: India (Jharkhand).	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD7C04928AA035CC7F8FF6E.taxon	etymology	Etymology: The species name is derived from Latin word “ Octo ” meaning eight and “ macula ” meaning spot referring to eight dark spots on the abdomen.	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD3C04828AA05C1C1C3FE13.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: Rhochmopterum can be differentiated from other genera of Schistopterini by the presence of dark rays without white filling except R. tribullosum and R. melanurum, presence of submedian pair of white, erect setulae on abdominal tergites, glossy apex of abdomen and acute apex of lateral surstylus (lateral view).	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD3C04528AA0028C422FBEB.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: This species is similar to R. venustum and R. malaviyai by possessing the reticulate wing pattern but can be separated from the both species by the presence of three hyaline spots in cell r 1 adjacent to the first ray (Figs 21, 26), whereas in other two species, it is fully hyaline; sternite 5 in males with distal margin broadly concave (Fig. 27), unlike medial concavity in R. malaviyai (Fig. 31) and R. venustum (Fig. 32); apex of glans of phallus with straight tube like extension (Figs 30, 30 a), unlike trumpetiform apex in R. venustum and bifid in R. malaviyai; relatively larger flies (3.00 mm) in comparison to other species (Hatwar et al. 2025).	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD3C04528AA0028C422FBEB.taxon	description	Description: Head (Figs 21, 22): as high as long (0.64 mm high; 0.66 mm long), scape and pedicel fulvous; postpedicel conical, pointed at apex; arista longer than first flagellomere, face fulvous, without carina, parafacial black with faint spot near compound eyes; frons fulvous, wider than long (0.29 mm high; 0.52 mm wide), with 3 pairs of frontal setae (1 st pair short; 2 nd pair 2 × longer than 1 st, black basally, brownish apically; 3 rd pair lanceolate, stubby and black), 2 pairs of orbital setae placed obliquely to frontal setae (1 st pair brown to black, 2 nd pair white, shorter than first), 1 pair of long yellowish interfrontal setae. Ocellar triangle black with 1 pair of white ocellar setae adjacent to ocellar triangle. Vertex fulvous with 1 pair of black, elongate medial vertical setae, 1 pair of short lateral vertical seta, 1 pair of postocellar setae, 2 pairs of short, stubby white paravertical setae and well-developed white and black post ocular setae. Gena fulvous with all white setae except one prominent black seta. Thorax (Figs 23, 24): Scutum (0.95 mm long) black, covered with dense golden tomentum, scattered white setulae and well-developed chaetotaxy: 1 postpronotal lobe, 1 presutural supra-alar, 1 anterior notopleural, 1 posterior notopleural, 1 postsutural supra-alar, 1 dorsocentral, 1 presutural acrostichal, 1 postalar, 1 intra alar. All setae yellowish. Scutellum (0.36 mm long, 0.66 mm wide) golden yellow with faint brown marking (dorsoventrally each side and medially), long brown basal scutellar setae and small white apical scutellar setae, 1 pair of white erect setae present dorsally between basal and apical scutellar setae; 1 pair each white setae before and after basal scutellar setae; 1 pair of short white setulae in line of basal scutellar setae. Anepisternum predominantly dark grey / black with yellow patches in dorsal and posterior regions, four stubby white setae with scattered setulae; anepimeron grey with yellow tomentum with 1 long brown seta and 1 stubby white seta, katepisternum grey with white tomentum and white seta dorsally, anatergite, katatergite, subscutellum and mediotergite grey with white tomentum. Legs (Fig. 21): coxa and trochanter fulvous, fore femur with a single, broad preapical black marking with 5 ventral setae (anterior one black, posterior four white), mid femur and hind femur with two black rings (each basally and apically), mid tibia and hind tibia each with a single black ring basally. Wing (Figs 21, 26): 3.11 mm long, oval shaped, hyaline, with dark brown area in the centre with six prominent radiating rays and surrounding pale reticulated pattern; all the veins and rays ending in dark transverse marking on costal and subapical region. Cell bc hyaline, cell c with narrow brown streak in the centre, humeral crossvein dark brown. Cell sc very short, half of cell c, hyaline apically; subcostal cleft prominent, guarded by 3 black setae. Vein R 1 setulose, vein R 4 + 5 setulose upto just beyond the r-m crossvein. Cell r 1 with a dark spot basally, three hyaline spot adjacent to first ray, three prominent rays reaching costal margin; 1 st ray reaching costa along apex of vein R 1 obliquely, ray 2 bent basally, ray 3 straight. Cell r 2 + 3 with four irregular white spots basally, and three elongate hyaline spot medially; basal ray in cell r 2 + 3 reaching along the apex of vein R 2 + 3 and two subapical rays reaching costa obliquely. Cell br with a medial white spot surrounding black area. Cell r 4 + 5 with a brown, bulla touching vein R 4 + 5 adjacent to crossvein r-m, a white spot beneath bulla with thick black border, three hyaline spots medially, apical longitudinal band in cell r 4 + 5 weakly connected to band along vein M 1. Cell bm hyaline; cell dm with dark-brown, oval shaped bulla with prominent hyaline spot on its proximal end and 7 – 8 hyaline spots adjacent to bulla. Cell m 1, m 4 and anal lobe with faint reticulate pattern, cell cua hyaline without acute extension. Male abdomen (Figs 25, 27): black (1.05 mm long; 1.14 mm wide) with golden-brown band medially; tergite 5 predominantly glossy black; all tergites with a pair of dorsomedial yellowish white erect setae. Sternite 5 with basal margin straight and dorsal margin with broad concavity. Male genitalia (Figs 27 – 30): Epandrium (length 0.32 mm, height 0.16 mm) brown with broad dark marking basally covering 0.09 mm of total length (lateral view); oval elongate (posterior view); proctiger round (0.07 mm); lateral surstylus acute apically, median surstylus with stubby, dark brown prensisetae; phallus long (1.59 mm), glans (0.29 mm) with tube-like straight short apex, predominantly hyaline with elongate patch of sclerotization basally and tubular membranous extension ventrally. Total body length: Male 3.00 mm	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD3C04528AA0028C422FBEB.taxon	biology_ecology	Host plant: Unknown	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD3C04528AA0028C422FBEB.taxon	materials_examined	Type material: Holotype ♂, India: Meghalaya, Nongshillong, 25.517603 ˚ N, 91.486472 ˚ E, 02. xii. 2023, Hatwar, N. K.	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD3C04528AA0028C422FBEB.taxon	distribution	Distribution: India (Meghalaya)	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
AA1987FEFFD3C04528AA0028C422FBEB.taxon	etymology	Etymology: This species is named after the type locality of the species and is a noun in apposition (Nongshillong).	en	Hatwar, Nikhil Khemrajji, David, Karamankodu Jacob, Raghuraman, Mahadevan, Srinivasa, Narayana (2026): Two new species of tribe Schistopterini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae) with an updated key to species from the Oriental region. Zootaxa 5750 (2): 231-240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5750.2.4
