Tephritis sophus Gentilini & Korneyev

Namin, Saeed Mohamadzade, Korneyev, Severyn V., Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad & Gilasian, Ebrahim, 2015, Revision of the Tephritis maccus species group (Diptera: Tephritidae) with description of a new species from Iran, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 589-599 : 597

Tephritis sophus Gentilini & Korneyev

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Tephritis sophus Gentilini & Korneyev 2006: 11

Distribution. Italy ( Gentilini & Korneyev 2006).

Comments. T. sophus is a fossil species. It is similar to T. azari , T. maccus and T. gharalii in having radiate wing pattern, and similar aculeus shape, but like T. azari , the short brown ray in dm cell basal to the level of r-m reaches only the mid-width of cell dm or Cu1 (whereas this ray reaches the middle of cell cu 1 in T. maccus and T. gharalii ). T. sophus also differs from T. azari in having the brown area around the apex of R2+3 with a broad Ushaped spot (including the small hyaline spot at R2+3 apex) darker than the remaining pattern (Fig. 9). Both male and female with 2 hyaline spots in cell r1 ( Gentilini et al., 2006: Figs. 30–33, 36–38 ). The oviscape in this species is about as long as the preceding three abdominal tergites.

Figures

FIGURES 28 – 32. Tephritis maccus, 28. Lateral habitus, holotype, ♀. 29. Spermatheca. 30. Aculeus apex. 31. Aculeus (holotype). 32. Apex of oviscape and eversible membrane.

FIGURES 33 – 40. Tephritis urelliosomima, 33. Lateral habitus, Paratype, ♀. 34. Apex of oviscape and eversible membrane. 35. Aculeus. 36. Glans of phallus, lateral. 37. Spermatheca. 38. Aculeus apex. 39. Epandrium, posterior view. 40. Epandrium and hypandrium, lateral left view.