Anastrepha caballeroi Norrbom, 2015

Uramoto, Keiko, Araújo, Alexandre S., Savaris, Marcoandre, Costa-Silva, Francisco C., Da Silva, Neliton M. & Zucchi, Roberto A., 2024, Identities revealed: female of Anastrepha cruzi Lima, 1934 and Anastrepha caballeroi Norrbom, 2015 (Diptera, Tephritidae) found in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, Zootaxa 5432 (3), pp. 445-450 : 448-449

Anastrepha caballeroi Norrbom, 2015

( Figs. 4 , 8, 9 )

Norrbom et al. 2015: 13. Type locality: Peru, Cusco, Estación Biológica Villa Carmen. Holotype ♀ (MHNJP) and paratypes ♀ ♂ deposited in several institutions ( Norrbom et al. 2015); Rodriguez et al. 2023: 104 (host plants).

Distribution. This species has previously been recorded only from Peru (Cusco and Madre de Dios) ( Norrbom et al. 2015; Rodriguez et al. 2023). Here, we provide the first report from Brazil, in a fragment of Amazon Rainforest in the city of Manaus, state of Amazonas.

Material Examined. BRAZIL: 1♀; Amazonas , Manaus, campus of the Federal University of Amazonas, 03°06 ’ 08.3 ” S, 59°58 ’ 31.6 ” W, 92 m, collected on 15 July 2011, baited McPhail-type trap, F.C. Costa-Silva leg. ( MELQ ESALQENT001777 ) .

Host. Anastrepha caballeroi larvae were found feeding on fruit pulp of Quararibea malacocalyx A. Robyns and S. Nilsson ( Malvaceae ) ( Norrbom et al. 2015; Rodriguez et al. 2023).

Comments. The identification was based on the morphological diagnostic characters proposed by Norrbom et al. (2015), namely, C and S-bands separated, V-band proximal and distal arms connected along vein R 4+5 ( Fig. 4 ); aculeus 3.39–4.11 mm long ( Fig. 8 ), aculeus tip 0.29–0.36 mm long, non-serrated ( Fig. 9 ) (see Norrbom et al. 2015, for details).

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Wings: 1, Anastrepha cruzi (holotype, Lima 1934; Fig. 19); 2–3, A. cruzi from Manaus, AM (V-band variation); 4, A. caballeroi.

FIGURES 5–9. Aculei and tips, ventral unless otherwise indicated: 5–7, A. cruzi (6, lateral view); 8–9, A. caballeroi.