Anastrepha speciosa Stone 1942
Creators: name: Norrbom, Allen L.
name: Korytkowski, Cheslavo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Anastrepha
Anastrepha speciosa

description: Anastrepha speciosa Stone   
Figs. 13, 17, 61–62, 94–96, 100, 107, 142, 163, 185, 188–189, 191  
 Anastrepha speciosa Stone 1942a: 100 [description, wing, aculeus tip, Panamá]; Foote 1967: 16 [in catalog]; Norrbom 1985: 156 [eversible membrane, aculeus tip]; Steyskal 1977: 28 [in key]; Korytkowski 1997: 49 [in key]; Norrbom et al. 1999a: 82 [in catalog]; Norrbom et al. 1999b: 327 [eversible membrane, classification]; Korytkowski 2004: 59 [in key].   
 Diagnosis. Anastrepha speciosa differs from most species of Anastrepha in having an extension from the basal part of the S-band to the posterior wing margin in the middle of cell cu 1 that is not connected to the posterior end of the proximal arm of the V-band. It differs from all of the other species having that wing character in having longer terminalia (oviscape more than 3.5 mm long, more than 1.2 times as long as mesonotum), and from all of them except A. rafaeli in usually having a brown posterior band on the scutum with a lateral extension to the intra-alar seta. The male is unusual in the small size or absence of the basal hyaline spot in cell dm (A. amazonensis also lacks this spot but differs in also lacking the hyaline spot in cell br). Anastrepha speciosa further differs from A. amazonensis and rafaeli by having the apex of the hyaline triangle in cell r 1 proximal to crossvein r-m.   
 Description. Mostly yellow to orange, with white to pale yellow markings. Setae dark brown to black.   
Head: Yellow to orange except ocellar tubercle brown and usually with U-shaped brown mark on posterior half of orbital plate and vertex, touching eye, connected only to posterior side of mark on ocellar tubercle. Usually 3, occasionally 4, rarely 2 or 5 frontal setae; 2 orbital setae, posterior seta well developed. Ocellar seta weak, at most twice as long as ocellar tubercle. Facial carina, in profile, straight or slightly convex dorsally and medially. Antenna extended 0.80–0.90 distance to ventral facial margin.  
Thorax (Figs. 13, 17): Mostly yellow to orange with following areas white or pale yellow (not always well differentiated in dried specimens): postpronotal lobe; diffuse medial vitta, often absent, inverted T-shaped or reduced to quadrate area between dorsocentral setae; paired sublateral scutal vitta from transverse suture almost to but not including intra-alar seta; entire scutellum; dorsal margin of anepisternum; katepimeron; and most of anatergite and katatergite. Posterior margin of scutum with broad brown band, broadest medially, including acrostichal seta and extended almost to dorsocentral seta, laterally with narrower extension including intra-alar seta. Subscutellum and mediotergite entirely orange. Mesonotum 2.63–3.61 mm long. Scutum entirely microtrichose; setulae mostly yellow to orange, brownish laterally. Katepisternal seta well developed, nearly as dark to as dark as and 0.67 times as large as to subequal to anepimeral seta.  
 Wing (Figs. 61–62): Length 6.22–8.15 mm, width 2.45–3.43 mm, ratio 2.34–2.54. Apex of vein R 1 at 0.51–0.55 wing length. Cell c 1.26–1.50 times as long as pterostigma; pterostigma 2.62–3.33 times as long as wide. Vein R 2+3 without sharp bends or undulations. Crossvein r-m at 0.67–0.71 distance from bm-cu to dm-cu on vein M. Vein M only slightly curved apically; cell r 4+5 1.21–1.41 times as wide at apex as at level of dm-cu. Cell bcu with distal lobe moderately long, length of bcu 1.32–1.64 times as long as anterior margin. Wing pattern mostly dark brown. C-band with cell bc yellowish to subhyaline; cell c narrowly yellowish basally, narrowly yellowish to subhyaline anteriorly, sometimes (especially in male) becoming brown towards apex, and usually narrowly brown distally, posteriorly with elongate medial hyaline area, not extended into pterostigma or cell r 1; remainder of C-band dark brown. Cell c with elongate nonmicrotrichose posteromedial area 0.25–0.50 width of cell in female, this area narrower or cell entirely microtrichose in male. C-band and Sband broadly connected along vein R 4+5; hyaline area in cell br small, usually reaching vein R 4+5 but at most 0.60 times as long as distal brown area of cell; cell dm with basal hyaline area relatively small, but broadly extending to posterior margin in female, absent or very small in male, extending beyond midwidth of cell in only 2 specimens and well separated from bm-cu. Basal half of S-band entirely brown, without orange area in cell dm or bordering crossvein r-m; with lobelike projection to or almost to posterior wing margin in middle of cell cu 1; distal section of band orange with brown margins or occasionally mostly brown (at least with orange medial area between r-m and costa), broad, at apex of vein R 2+3 0.85–1.00 times width of cell r 2+3, slightly to distinctly broadening in cell r 2+3, well separated from apex of vein M; hyaline area proximal to it ending at vein R 2+3. Hyaline basomarginal spot in cell r 1 triangular or with distal side slightly elongated, extended beyond vein R 2+3 and usually to R 4+5, its apex aligned proximal to crossvein r-m. V-band complete, mostly moderate brown, moderately broadly to broadly connected to S-band in cell r 2+3; proximal arm with medial orange area from vein R 4+5 to anterior 0.25–0.80 of dm-cu, proximal arm moderately broad, gradually slightly broadening posteriorly, without basal extension along wing margin, at level of vein M 1.85–2.40 times as wide as distal arm and 1.60–2.80 times as wide as hyaline area proximal to it in cells r 4+5 and dm; distal arm slender.   
Abdomen: Mostly orange, without brown markings.  
Male terminalia: Lateral surstylus short, extended beyond prensisetae by ca. 2 times length of prensiseta; in lateral view broad, slightly posteriorly curved and tapering to acute apex; in posterior view gradually tapered to acute apex, lateral margin convex, medial margin concave. Proctiger with ventral and lateral sclerotized areas connected but lateral areas separate dorsally. Phallus 5.50–6.00 mm long, 1.65–2.00 times as long as mesonotum; glans 0.40–0.45 mm long.  
Female terminalia: Oviscape (Fig. 13) 3.62–4.70 mm long, 1.23–1.38 times as long as mesonotum; distal 0.80 or more brown; spiracle at basal 0.24–0.35. Eversible membrane (Figs. 94–96, 100) with ca. 50 large, hooklike dorsobasal scales in triangular to semicircular pattern. Aculeus (Fig. 142) slightly ventrally curved in lateral view, 3.40–4.70 mm long; in ventral view base 0.20–0.24 mm wide; shaft 0.10–0.14 mm wide at midlength; tip (Figs. 163, 185, 188–189) 0.26–0.31 mm long, 0.11–0.135 mm wide, 2.1–2.5 times as long as wide, 0.06–0.08 mm wide in lateral view, 0.50–0.62 times ventral width, in ventral view gradually tapering, apical 0.27–0.39 finely serrate. Spermathecae (Fig. 107) spherical.  
Egg (Fig. 191): (14 dissected from abdomen of female): Slender, 1.15–1.25 mm long, 0.15–0.17 mm wide at broadest point, slightly curved. Posterior end strongly tapered. Anterior end without lobe distal to micropyle, micropyle nipple-shaped.  
 Distribution. Anastrepha speciosa is known only from Panamá.   
 Biology. The host plants and other aspects of the biology of this species other than dates of capture of adults are unknown.   
 Type Data. Holotype female (USNM USNMENT000104286), PANAMÁ: El Cermeño, 18 Jul 1939, J. Zetek 4517 [examined]. The wing and terminalia are mounted on slides 39.XI.8a and 39.XI.8b.   
 Other specimens examined. PANAMÁ: Panamá: Parque Nacional Chagres, Altos de Pacora, McPhail trap, 12 Apr 2002, C. A. Korytkowski, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00214745); same, 2001, C. A. Korytkowski, 1♂ 1♀ (FSCA USNMENT00214783-84), 2♂ 1♀ (INPA USNMENT00214785-87), 13♂ 13♀ (USNM USNMENT00214788-801, USNMENT00214803-14); Altos de Pacora, Migdalia Fuentes, McPhail trap 535A, Jul 2003, C. A. Korytkowski, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00213669); Arraijan, 13 Sep 1947, J. Zetek 5310, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00216303); same, 20 Sep 1947, J. Zetek 5311, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00052105); Balboa, 16 Jul 1942, J. Zetek 4966, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00216302); El Cermeño, 3 Jun 1941, J. Zetek 4791, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00216291); same, 21 Apr 1942, J. Zetek 4935, 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00216301).   
 Comments. The male of this species was previously unknown.
description: Published as part of Norrbom, Allen L. & Korytkowski, Cheslavo A., 2009, A revision of the Anastrepha robusta species group (Diptera: Tephritidae) 2182, pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 2182 (1) on pages 57-59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2182.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5316544