Sapadrama citrina Hancock & Marshall, 2012

Chen, Xiaolin & Wang, Yong, 2023, A new species of Sapadrama Hancock & Marshall (Diptera: Tephritidae) from China and an updated key to the known species, Zootaxa 5353 (5), pp. 488-494 : 492-493

Sapadrama citrina Hancock & Marshall, 2012

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Sapadrama citrina Hancock & Marshall, 2012: 58 . Chen et al., 2021a: 74.

Diagnosis. A large and predominantly yellowish to rufous species. Head largely yellowish, slightly higher than long, somewhat gibbose; frons with round medial black spot between and anterior to orbital setae. Thorax mostly rufous; scutum rufous with four broad yellowish vittae: two medial vittae that from anterior margin and end at 1/3 apically before posterior margin, two lateral vittae that from 1/5 basally at anterior margin and end at posterior margin. Wing mostly hyaline; yellowish anterior to vein R 4+5 and apex of vein R 2+3, including costal cells; diffuse greybrown patch over apical third connected basally through cell dm to blackish mark over crossvein r–m that does not cross vein R 4+5; cell m with broad but indistinct subhyaline marginal indentation; cell br with narrow yellow band posterior to humeral crossvein, and cells br and bm with yellowish suffusion; pterostigma half length of cell c. Male abdomen club-shaped, narrowed at base; tergites rufous, especially laterally; sternites yellow. Female abdomen elongate; oviscape rufous, subtriangular in dorsal view, with peculiar dorsoapical opening; eversible membrane about as long as tergites V+VI combined, with pair of long, faintly indicated taeniae, apically black with collar of dense, monodentate black scales that are slightly shorter laterally but equally long on dorsal and ventral surfaces ( Hancock & Marshall, 2012).

Material examined. 1♀, CHINA: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Menghai, Benggang , 1500m, 29 August 2013, Y. Wang and C. Wang ; 2♀, CHINA: Yunnan, Baoshan, Baihuling , 1557m, 24 August 2023, Y. Wang and XL. Chen ; 1♀, CHINA: Yunnan, Yingjiang, Tongbiguan , 2 June 2020, Y. Wang, XL. Chen and N Huangfu ; 1♀, CHINA: Shaanxi, Meixian, Haoping , 12 July 2012, GD. Ren ; 1♀, CHINA: Shaanxi, Liuba, Weituogou , 1600m, 21 July 1998, XZ. Zhang; 1♁, 1♀, CHINA: Shaanxi, Ningshan, Xunyangba , 1350m, 29 July 1998, J. Yao ; 1♀, CHINA: Xizang, Nielamu, Zhangmu , 1945m, 1 August 2019, KD. Zhao ; 1♀, CHINA: Xizang, Nielamu, Zhangmu , 1892m, 30 July 2019, KD. Zhao ; 1♀, CHINA: Gansu, Wenxian, Bifenggou , 940–1500m, 28 July 1999, J. ZhaoYao ; 1♀, CHINA: Henan, Xixia, Taiping , 18 July 1998, YS. Shi; 1♁, 1♀, CHINA: Henan, Xixia, Huangshianlinchang , 1400m, 18 July 1998, XY. Hu. All materials deposited in IZCAS .

Distribution: China (Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Xizang); Vietnam (Catcat).

Biology. The fly from Yunnan, Yingjiang, Tongbiguan was collected on the surface of an understory humus layer close to a river in 2020. The flies and two moth larvae (probably belong to Geometridae ) from Baoshan, Yunnan, China were collected in August 2023 and have been raised together in a cage. Finally one female fly in the cage was observed to prick body of moth larvae using its abdomen.