Coelotrypes Bezzi

David, K. J. & Hancock, D. L., 2019, Taxonomic notes on genus Coelotrypes Bezzi (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae) with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4563 (3), pp. 584-594 : 585

Coelotrypes Bezzi

Coelotrypes Bezzi, 1924: 494 . Type species: C. vittatus Bezzi , by original designation.

Euphrantochlaena Hering, 1940: 3 . Type species: E. pulchellina Hering , by original designation. Syn. Hancock, 1986: 300.

Staurocneros Hering, 1944: 2 . Type species: Staurella circumscripta Hering , by original designation. Syn. Permkam and Hancock, 1995: 1142.

Diagnosis: Antenna longer than face with short plumose arista, concave face, 2̄3 pairs of frontal setae (uppermost one closely placed to orbital seta), scutum and scutellum with a medial yellow vitta, anatergite with fine erect hairs, mid tibia with single black ventroapical spine, crossvein r-m distal of middle of cell dm, epandrium dome-shaped with stout lateral surstylus as long as epandrium, lateral susrtylus without well demarcated anterior and posterior lobes, proctiger tubular with tuft of apical hairs (bearded appearance). Glans of phallus with single tubule, well developed acrophallus. Female with three, oval/club-shaped spermathecae, aculeus tip trilobed with preapical serrations and four pairs of small preapical setae.

Coelotrypes can be separated from all other genera of Adramini (= Euphrantini) by the keys in Hancock (1986), Hancock and Drew (2005) and Hancock and Marshall (2012). Occurring in both the Afrotropical and Indo- Australian Regions, it appears to be most closely related to the Afrotropical genera Coelopacidia Enderlein (with 1 Indian species: see David et al., 2013) and Trypanophion Bezzi , which differ in having 2 long apical spines on the mid tibia rather than one. It also resembles the Oriental genera Euphranta Loew and Dimeringophrys Enderlein but males can be easily differentiated by the presence of a tuft of apical hairs on the proctiger. Keys to Afrotropical species were provided by Hancock (1986) and notes on Oriental, Australasian and Pacific Island species were included in Hardy (1983) and Hancock and Drew (2005). All recorded host plants are the flower buds of Convolvulaceae .