Trypeta indica ( Hendel, 1915 )

Korneyev, S. V., Hauser, M., Borkent, C., Maples, B. K., Roubtsova, T. V., Zangpo, T., Dorji, S., Chophel, S., Dorji, N., Tsomo, Dendup, U., Dawa, K., Dorji, L., Dhimal, C. Mani, Kinley, R., Dorji, U., Dema, Y., Korneyev, V. A. & Gaimari, S. D., 2023, The Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) In Bhutan: New Faunistic Records And Compendium Of Fauna, Zoodiversity 57 (2), pp. 93-124 : 119

Trypeta indica ( Hendel, 1915) ( fig. 21 )

Material. Thimphu, 3 km NNE Dochula , 27.518° N, 89.755° E, 2360 m, 19.08.2017, hand collecting, 2 Ơ

(M. Hauser leg.) FFP 17BT065 ( CSCA 19L110).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. India ( Hendel, 1915; Kapoor, 1993); Bhutan (first record).

Note. This species has short ocellar setae, 3 slightly proclinate frontal setae, and a wide apical crossband, characters shared with other species related to T. zoe Meigen, 1826 . In the latter species, the wing pattern is sexually dimorphic, with the preapical crossband better developed in females and usually reduced in males; on the contrary, males usually have an extensive irregular dark area on and posterbasal to the pterostigma also covering the radial fork. The specimens on hand are males, which have an entirely brownish- or reddish-yellow mesonotum without black spots on the mediotergite as in the holotype female of T. indica , but the female wing pattern ( fig. 21 , d) is conspicuously different from the male wing pattern ( fig. 21 , a) in having complete discal crossband; however, similar dimorphism occurs in other species of the zoe group. We consider these males to belong to T. indica . The locality in Bhutan is only ca. 150 km from Dargeeling, its type locality.

Figures

Fig. 21. Trypeta indica (a–c —non-type Ơ from Bhutan; d–f — holotype ♀ from Darjeeling):a — left-side lateral view; b — anterior view; c — dorsal view; d — right-side lateral view; e — abdomen, posterior; f — head, dorsal.