Published July 18, 2013
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Dacus blepharogaster Bezzi 1917
Description
Dacus blepharogaster Bezzi, 1917
A male specimen from Sérou, Benin (Dec. 2005, leg. G. Goergen) differs from D. blepharogaster, as described by White (2006) in having some red pattern on the third abdominal tergite. However, since this species belongs to a group that needs proper revision (Dacus (Lophodacus) brevis group as defined by White 2006) and since only one specimen was found in the collections studied, it is not described as a separate species. As the previous species, this is also predominantly an East African species (Kenya, Eritrea and Ethiopia) but was not included in the richness analysis.
Notes
Published as part of Meyer, Marc De, White, Ian M. & F. M. Goodger, Kim, 2013, Notes on the frugivorous fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) fauna of western Africa, with description of a new Dacus species, pp. 1-17 in European Journal of Taxonomy 50 on page 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.50, http://zenodo.org/record/3814414
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lauxaniidae
- Genus
- Dacus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bezzi
- Species
- blepharogaster
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dacus blepharogaster Bezzi, 1917 sec. Meyer, White & Goodger, 2013
References
- White I. M. 2006. Taxonomy of the Dacina (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Africa and the Middle East. African Entomology Memoir 2: 1 - 156.