Anastrepha phaeoptera, Lima, 1937

Norrbom, Allen L. & Korytkowski, Cheslavo A., 2009, A revision of the Anastrepha robusta species group (Diptera: Tephritidae) 2182, Zootaxa 2182 (1), pp. 1-91 : 44-45

Anastrepha phaeoptera Lima

Figs. 52 , 205

Anastrepha phaeoptera Lima 1937a: 38 [description, wing, male terminalia, host, Brazil: Bahia]; Stone 1942a: 92; Foote 1967: 14 [in catalog]; Steyskal 1977: 8; Zucchi 1978: 74; Norrbom 1985: 172; Korytkowski 1997: 47 [in key]; Kovaleski et al. 1999: 232 [ Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul]; Norrbom et al. 1999a: 81 [in catalog]; Norrbom et al. 1999b: 334 [classification]; Zucchi 2000a: 21 [in key]; Zucchi 2000b: 46 [in host list]; Nacimento & Carvalho 2000: 236 [ Brazil: Bahia]; Kovaleski et al. 2000: 290 [ Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul]; Korytkowski 2004: 58 [in key].

Diagnosis. Anastrepha phaeoptera differs from most species of Anastrepha in having the hyaline basomarginal spot in cell r 1 with its apex aligned slightly distal to crossvein r-m. It differs from other species with this wing character by the following combination of characters: S-band basally without extension to the posterior wing margin in the middle of cell cu 1; wing pattern mostly brown, C-band in cells r 1 and r 2+3 and Sband in cell dm without orange areas; V-band with distal arm present but separated from proximal arm.

Description. Mostly dark orange. Setae black. Body length 9.75 mm (head + thorax 6.25 mm, abdomen 3.5 mm).

Head: Antenna and palpus orange.

Thorax: Mesonotum length 5.0 mm ( Zucchi 1978). Scutum with pale yellow vittae weak. Sides of scutellum brown, dorsum and apex yellow. Subscutellum brown. Mediotergite entirely reddish brown. Katepisternal seta small, weak, 0.33 length of anepimeral seta.

Wing ( Fig. 52 ): Length 9.0 mm (10.0 according to Zucchi 1978), length/width ratio 2.24. Apex of vein R 1 at 0.54 wing length. Cell c 1.33 times as long as pterostigma; pterostigma 3.2 times as long as wide. Vein R 2+3 without sharp bends or undulations. Crossvein r-m at 0.62 distance from bm-cu to dm-cu on vein M. Vein M very strongly curved apically; cell r 4+5 0.75 times as wide at apex as at level of dm-cu. Cell bcu with distal lobe moderately long, length of bcu 1.6 times as long as anterior margin. Wing pattern mostly dark brown. C-band with cell bc yellowish; cell c mostly yellowish, base and extreme apex brown; yellow area not extended into pterostigma nor cell r 1; remainder of band in pterostigma, r 1, r 2+3, and br entirely dark brown. C-band and Sband broadly connected along vein R 4+5, hyaline area in cell br small, narrowly separated from vein R 4+5, ca. half as long as distal brown area of cell; cell dm with basal hyaline area moderately large. Basal half of S-band mostly dark brown, with small medial orange area narrowly bordering crossvein r-m but not extending into cell dm; posterior margin with distinct incision in cell cu 1 and with narrow extension towards proximal arm of V-band at distal third of cell dm; section between vein M and costa and distal section of band with orange areas with broad brown margins, distal section broad, at apex of vein R 2+3 as broad as cell r 2+3, distinctly broadening in cell r 2+3; extended to apex of vein M; hyaline area proximal to it ending at vein R 2+3. Hyaline basomarginal spot in cell r 1 triangular, with blunt apex, extended to R 4+5, its apex aligned slightly distal to crossvein r-m. V-band incomplete, mostly brown, proximal arm very broadly connected to S-band in cell r 2+3; proximal arm with narrow medial orange area extending across cell r 4+5 and into cell dm bordering anterior half of dm-cu; proximal arm moderately broad anteriorly, gradually broadening posteriorly, with short basal extension along wing margin, at level of vein M 1.67 times as wide as distal arm and 1.67 times as wide as hyaline area proximal to it in cells r 4+5 and dm; distal arm slender to moderately broad, well separated from proximal arm, extended almost to vein R 4+5.

Male terminalia ( Fig. 205 ): Lateral surstylus short, extended beyond prensisetae by ca. 0.5 times length of prensiseta; in lateral view with posterodistal margin concave.

Female terminalia: Unknown.

Distribution. Anastrepha phaeoptera is known only from southern and eastern Brazil (Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul).

Biology. Lima (1937a) reported that the holotype was reared from “amora preta,” which he later ( Lima 1938: 64) said was Helixanthostylis poppigiana [sic] Trec. The valid name of this plant is Helicostylis tomentosa (Poepp. & Endl.) Rusby (= Helicostylis poeppigiana (Mart.) Trécul ) ( Moraceae ).

Type Data. Holotype male ( IOC), Brazil: Bahia, G. Bondar [not examined].

Comments. The holotype was unavailable for loan. The above description is based on the original description and wing photo of Lima (1937a) and the description of Zucchi (1978). The male from Vacaria, Rio Grande do Sul reported by Kovaleski et al. (1999: 232) unfortunately was destroyed except for the wings (R. A. Zucchi, pers. comm.).

Figures

FIGURES 42–53. Wings: 42, A. jamaicensis (holotype); 43, A. lambda (holotype); 44, A. miza (Venezuela: Cuchime, USNMENT00214907); 45–46, A. nigra (Panamá: Altos de Pacora, USNMENT00215489; Chayotera, USNMENT00671160); 47–49, A. nigrifascia (USA: Key West, USNMENT00056328; Big Pine Key, USNMENT00216419; USNMENT00216755); 50, A. nigrivittata (holotype); 51, A. partita (holotype); 52, A. phaeoptera (holotype, copied from Lima 1937, estampa 1, fig. 3); 53, A. pittieri (Venezuela: Rancho Grande, USNMENT0052102).

FIGURES 205–210. Male terminalia (epandria and surstyli): 205, A. phaeoptera (lateral, holotype, copied from Lima 1937, fig. 9); 206, A. robusta (lateral, Panama: Arraijan, USNMENT00216447); 207–208, A. pittieri (lateral and posterior, Venezuela: Rancho Grande, USNMENT00216185); 209–210, A. rojasi (lateral and posterior, Panamá: Barro Colorado Is., USNMENT00216154).