Genus Austrotephritis Hancock & Drew, 2003
- 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
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.
History of changes
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