Anastrepha cryptostrephoides, Norrbom & Korytkowski, 2009

Norrbom, Allen L. & Korytkowski, Cheslavo A., 2009, A revision of the Anastrepha robusta species group (Diptera: Tephritidae) 2182, Zootaxa 2182 (1), pp. 1-91 : 21-22

Anastrepha cryptostrephoides , new species

Figs. 31 , 194–196

Anastrepha cryptostrephoides Norrbom 1985: 98 [nomen nudum; wing, male terminalia].

Diagnosis. Anastrepha cryptostrephoides differs from other species of Anastrepha except A. cryptostrepha , A. cordata , and probably A. disticrux (whose male is unknown) in having the sclerotized areas of the proctiger connected dorsally. It differs from A. cordata in lacking brown scutal vittae and in having a typical wing pattern, with the proximal arm of the V-band not exceptionally broad and dark. It differs from A. cryptostrepha in having the basomarginal hyaline mark in cell r 1 extending to vein R 4+5 and its apex proximal to crossvein r-m. It differs from A. disticrux in the more proximal position of crossvein r-m, and from both species in its more extensively orange wing pattern and longer terminalia. The female is unknown, but extrapolating from the phallus length and the lengths of the phallus and oviscape in A. cryptostrepha , the oviscape in A. cryptostrephoides may be approximately 7 mm long and 2 times as long as the mesonotum.

Description. Mostly yellow to orange, with white to pale yellow markings. Setae red brown to dark red brown.

Head: Yellow to orange except ocellar tubercle brown and pair of slender faint brown L-shaped marks almost forming U on posterior half of orbital plate and vertex, extending laterally to level of orbital setae; occiput with faint brown diamond shaped mark medially. 5 frontal setae; 2 orbital setae, posterior seta well developed. Ocellar seta weak, approximately as long as ocellar tubercle. Facial carina, in profile, straight dorsally and medially. Antenna extended 0.78 distance to ventral facial margin.

Thorax: Mostly yellow to orange. Typical white or pale yellow areas (postpronotal lobe; paired sublateral scutal vitta from transverse suture to intra-alar seta; medial scutal vitta; entire scutellum; dorsal margin of anepisternum; katepimeron; and most of anatergite and katatergite) not differentiated in holotype, probably present in live or fluid preserved material. Posterior margin of scutum with broad brown band, extended to acrostichal seta anteriorly, laterally with narrow extension including intra-alar seta. Subscutellum slightly and diffusely darkened laterally, mediotergite entirely orange. Mesonotum 3.50 mm long. Scutum microtrichose only lateral to intra-alar line posterior to transverse suture; scutellum entirely microtrichose; setulae mostly yellow to orange. Katepisternal seta weak and shorter than postocellar seta.

Wing ( Fig. 31 ): Length 8.72 mm, width 3.82 mm, ratio 2.28. Apex of vein R 1 at 0.55 wing length. Cell c 0.92 times as long as pterostigma; pterostigma 4.33 times as long as wide. Vein R 2+3 without sharp bends or undulations. Crossvein r-m at 0.68 distance from bm-cu to dm-cu on vein M. Vein M only slightly curved apically; cell r 1.26 times as wide at apex as at level of dm-cu. Cell bcu with distal lobe relatively short, length of bcu 1.43 times as long as anterior margin. Wing pattern mostly orange and moderate brown. C-band with cell bc yellowish; cell c yellowish, distal half of anterior margin and apex narrowly brown, posteriorly with elongate medial paler area, not extended into pterostigma or cell r 1. Remainder of C-band predominantly orange; pterostigma, most of band in cell br, and extreme bases and narrow distal margins of band in cell cells r 1 and r 2+3 moderate brown. Cell c with elongate nonmicrotrichose posteromedial area 0.40 width of cell. Cband and S-band moderately broadly connected along vein R 4+5; hyaline area in cell br elongate, oblique, reaching vein R 4+5, as long as distal colored area of cell; cell dm with basal hyaline area relatively small, but extending to posterior margin. Basal half of S-band mostly orange with narrow brown margins, except proximal margin in cell dm orange; most of band in cell cu 1 moderate brown; posterior margin with shallow incision in cell cu 1; distal section of band orange, with posterior margin narrowly brown; moderately broad, at apex of vein R 2+3 0.72 times width of cell r 2+3, slightly broadening in cell r 2+3, well separated from apex of vein M; hyaline area proximal to it ending at vein R 2+3. Hyaline basomarginal spot in cell r 1 narrow triangular, extended to R 4+5, its apex aligned proximal to crossvein r-m. V-band complete, mostly brown, broadly connected to S-band in cell r 2+3; proximal arm with broad medial orange area from apex to posterior end of dm-cu; proximal arm moderately broad, gradually broadening posteriorly, with basal extension along wing margin, at level of vein M 1.54 times as wide as distal arm and approximately as wide as hyaline area proximal to it in cells r 4+5 and dm; distal arm slender, mostly brown.

4+5

Abdomen: Mostly orange, without brown markings.

Male terminalia ( Figs. 194–196 ): Lateral surstylus short, extended beyond prensisetae by 1.5– 2.0 times length of prensiseta; in lateral view slightly posteriorly curved and very broad, prensisetae equidistant from anterior and posterior margins, posteroapical corner bluntly acute; in posterior view gradually tapered to blunt apex, lateral and medial margins convex. Proctiger with sclerotized areas connected laterally and dorsally. Phallus 9.68 mm long, 2.77 times as long as mesonotum; glans 0.60 mm long.

Female terminalia: Unknown.

Distribution. Anastrepha cryptostrephoides is known only from Peru.

Biology. The host plants and other aspects of the biology of this species other than date of capture of adults are unknown.

Type data. Holotype male ( SMT USNMENT00104290 ), PERU: Río Urubamba , Umahuankilia, 19 Sep 1903, [Schnuse collection]. The holotype bears a green label with “Peru - Urubambafl. 19.9.03 Umahuankilia”.

Etymology. The name of this species is a Latin adjective referring to its similarity to A. cryptostrepha .

Figures

FIGURES 30–41. Wings: 30, A. cryptostrepha (Peru: Meshagua, USNMENT00104288); 31, A. cryptostrephoides (holotype); 32, A. disticrux (holotype); 33, A. fenestrata (Brazil: Rio Trombetas, USNMENT00052104); 34–35, A. fenestrella (Panamá: Arraijan, USNMENT0052103; Altos de Pacora, USNMENT00671180); 36–39, A. furcata (Brazil: Cruz das Almas, USNMENT00052097; Panamá: El Cermeño, USNMENT00052100; holotype, copied from Lima 1934, estampa LXVIII, fig. 28; female, Brazil: Cachoeira Paciencia, copied from Lima 1937, estampa 3, fig. 4); 40, A. fuscata (holotype); 41, A. isolata (Ecuador: Onkone Gare Camp, USNMENT00054603).

FIGURES 192–198. Male terminalia (epandria and surstyli): 192–193, A. concava (lateral and posterior, Panamá: Arraijan); 194–196, A. cryptostrephoides (glans, epandrium and surstyli, holotype); 197, A. fenestrata (ventrolateral, holotype, copied from Lima 1934, fig. 24); 198, A. fenestrella (lateral, Panamá: Arraijan, USNMENT00052103).