Genus Austrotephritis Hancock & Drew, 2003

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• Austrotephritis Hancock, D.L. & Drew, R.A.I. 2003. A new genus and new species, combinations and records of Tephritiinae (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Australian Entomologist 30(4): 141-158 [150].

  Type species:

   Trypeta poenia Walker, 1849 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; ACT, Tas, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM) ; NSW, SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Nandewar (NAN) ; NSW, Tas: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Mulga Lands (ML), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP) ; Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH) ; Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Diagnosis

Head quadrate with frons bare and epistome protruding; mouthparts often elongate but not geniculate, the labella fleshy and about half length of head; third antennal segment slightly produced dorsoapically; arista short pubescent; 2 pairs of frontal and 2 pairs of reclinate orbital setae, the upper orbital white and shorter than the anterior orbital, the others dark; short lateral vertical and postocular setae white and thickened and small dark setulae usually present among postocular row; scutum and abdomen densely tomentose although often with brown vittae on scutum and large brown submedian patches on abdomen; dorsocentral setae on or just behind suture; wing pattern dark with numerous hyaline spots and indentations of various sizes, often with an isolated brown spot at apex of vein R4+5 but if stellate then without an apical fork; upperside of R1 usually with a bare, non-setose area below end of vein Sc but setae present in some species; 4 scutellar setae, the apical pair less than half length of basals; surstylus inwardly curved; distiphallus non-spinose; glans with large sclerotised internal structure and a short vesica; aculeus short and apically pointed; spermathecae tuberculate and elongate, often club-shaped.

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