1. Dacus pleuralis Collart 1935
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Meyer, Marc De, White, Ian M., and F. M. Goodger, Kim
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Dacus ,Insecta ,Arthropoda ,Diptera ,Lauxaniidae ,Animalia ,Biodiversity ,Dacus pleuralis ,Taxonomy - Abstract
Dacus pleuralis Collart, 1935 Among the material examined was a male specimen collected at Ibadan, Nigeria (4-8 Dec. 2003, cue lure traps, leg. G. Goergen), in addition to the male specimen studied earlier (White & Goodger 2009). It shows some morphological deviation from the earlier collected specimen and from the type material as redescribed in White (2006): the xanthines (katatergite and anatergite) are fused, while in the typical D. pleuralis the xanthines are clearly separated. The anterior supra-alar seta is absent or vestigial while well developed in the typical D. pleuralis. These differences, however, appear to be intraspecific variation and do not warrant separate description., 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 12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.50, http://zenodo.org/record/3814414, {"references":["White I. M. & Goodger K. F. M. 2009. African Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae); new species and data, with particular reference to the Tel Aviv University Collection. Zootaxa 2127: 1 - 49.","White I. M. 2006. Taxonomy of the Dacina (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Africa and the Middle East. African Entomology Memoir 2: 1 - 156."]}
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- 2013
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