Euphranta Loew
Creators: name: David, K. J.
name: Singh, Shakti Kumar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Euphranta

description: Key to species of Euphranta Loew from India (based on David et al., 2013)
1. Wing fully hyaline with a faint transverse band along crossvein dm-cu................. E. hyalipennis David & Freidberg
- Wing with either dark transverse bands or apical black patch................................................... 2
2. Wing with hyaline band extending from cell r1 just beyond pterostigma to posterior margin diagonally, curved up to reach cell r4+5; large apical brown patch with longitudinal hyaline band in cell r2+3.......................... E. klugii (Wiedemann)
- Wing with transverse hyaline band from cell r1 just beyond pterostigma ending at or before posterior margin, never curved up to reach cell r4+5; devoid of large apical brown patch or, if present, without longitudinal hyaline band in cell r2+3 and hyaline apical spot in cell r4+5................................................................................... 3
3. Wing with subcostal band continued as costal band and a preapical brown patch covering crossveins dm-cu and r-m........................................................................................ E. macularis (Wiedemann)
- Wing with subcostal band not continued as costal band; preapical brown patch absent............................... 4
4. Apex of cell r4+5 without hyaline spot; subapical band over crossvein dm-cu fading and merging with anterior yellow fumose area.................................................................................... E. diffusa David
- Apex of cell r4+5 with hyaline spot and devoid of yellow fumose area............................................. 5
5. Wing with a hyaline V-shaped marking extending from anterior margin to cell cu1.............. E. lemniscata (Enderlein)
- Wing with straight or curved transverse bands, never forming hyaline V-shaped marking............................. 6
6. Face wholly fulvous or slightly fuscous towards oral margin.................................................... 7
- Face wholly black, black towards oral margin, or with spots along antennal grooves................................ 10
7. Wing predominantly hyaline with one or two transverse bands.................................................. 8
- Wing not predominantly hyaline, with three to four crossbands or apical three-fourths dark brown to black with hyaline inden- tations.............................................................................................. 9
8. All femora yellow, wing predominantly hyaline, discal band narrowed to end before or at crossvein r-m.. E. cassiae (Munro)
- Forefemur with apical one-third black, wing with discal band reaching cell dm................. E. pseuodcassiae sp. nov.
9. Wing hyaline with four discontinuous transverse bands............................................. E. crux (Bezzi)
- Wing hyaline only in basal quarter; apical three fourths dark brown to black except hyaline indentations in cell r1 that end at vein R4+5, in cell cu1 that extend into cell dm and at apex of cell r4+5........................ E. notabilis (van der Wulp)
10. Face wholly black; scutum and abdomen shiny black; wing with four discontinuous, transverse bands.. E. nigripeda (Bezzi)
- Face not wholly black, at least fulvous basally or with two separate black markings............................... 11
11. Face black towards oral margin.......................................................................... 12
- Face with two separate black spots....................................................................... 13
12. Wing with three transverse bands, subapical band fused with preapical band medially................ E. thandikudi David
- Wing with two transverse bands, subapical band and preapical band not fused..................... .. E. wrightiae sp. nov.
13. Face with longitudinal marks along antennal foveae; dorsocentral seta vestigial or absent; apex of aculeus with preapical indentation.............................................................................. E. dysoxyli David
- Face with two subtriangular spots; dorsocentral seta well developed; apex of aculeus acute and without preapical indentation......................................................................... E. haldwanica Hancock & Goodger
description: Published as part of David, K. J. & Singh, Shakti Kumar, 2015, Two new species of Euphranta Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetiane) and an updated key for the species from India in Zootaxa 3914 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/237932