Carpophthoromyia tessmanni Enderlein 1920
Creators: name: Meyer, Marc De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Carpophthoromyia
Carpophthoromyia tessmanni

description: C. tessmanni (Enderlein, 1920)
(Figs. 6, 19, 25)
Ceratitis tessmanni Enderlein, 1920: 345.
Carpophthoromyia tessmanni: Bezzi 1924 b, Cogan & Munro 1980.
Diagnosis
Arista distinctly plumose; two frontals (sometimes third poorly developed); scutum with one transverse band; usually transverse suture with yellow fascia; postpronotum white; scutellum with three apical brown spots, only visible in ventral view; anterior margin of wing with one indentation near junction of vein C with apical part of vein R1; Sband and inverted V­band separate.
Description
Head. Antennal segments orange. Arista distinctly plumose, longest rays longer than width of first flagellomere. Frons yellow. Two frontals, sometimes third, poorly developed, anterior one; placed on oblique line with anterior frontal 3 times as far from the inner eye margin than posterior frontal; two orbitals. Face white to yellow, sometimes gena darker yellow.
Thorax. Scutum shining black­brown, along transverse suture sometimes more yellow; black setulae, except for one broad transverse band with silvery setulae anteriorly of transverse suture; sometimes silvery setulae extended anteriorly along centre of presutural area; transverse suture with yellow fascia. Postpronotum white. Anepisternum largely white to yellow, only lower fourth dark yellow to yellow­brown; with pale setulae, ventral fourth posteriorly with black setulae; two anepisternals. Anatergite and katatergite white. Scutellum white, ventrally with 3 brown apical spots, not visible in dorsal view. Subscutellum black.
Legs yellow; in female femora red­brown.
Wing. (Fig. 6). Basal part with streaks and patches (especially near base of cell dm). One hyaline indentation near junction of vein C with apical part of vein R1; reaching halfway R4+5 and M. S­band and inverted V­band not fused. S­band with subapical tooth, sometimes small. Inverted V­band partly separated anteriorly in male. Crossvein DM­Cu straight. R­M ratio 1.30­1.39.
Abdomen. Shining black­brown, with black setulae. Tergite 2 posteriorly more orange, tergite 4 with median yellow spot posteriorly and with white setulae and microtrichosity on spot. Spermatheca ovoid in apical part, base slender. Female terminalia, oviscape about as long as abdominal tergites; shining black­brown, with black setulae. Aculeus yellow to orange, flattened; about 8 times longer than wide (Fig. 19), aculeus tip simply pointed (Fig. 25), straight.
Body length: 4.86 (4.32­5.44)mm; wing length 5.04 (4.72­5.68)mm
Material examined
Type material: Lectotype (herewith designated) Ψ: [EQUATORIAL GUINEA], Uelleburg, May­August 1908, S. Tessmann (MNHU). Paralectotypes: same date and locality as lectotype, 2ɗɗ 1Ψ (MNHU); 1ɗ (BMNH).
Other material: CAMEROON: 1ɗ, nr Yaoundé, 29.V­8.VI.1936, “from foliage”, Van Zwaluwenburg & McGough (USNM). CONGO (D.R.): 1Ψ, Bambesa, 13.V.1937, J. Vrydagh (KBIN); 2ΨΨ, Kunungu, 5.IV.1921, H. Schouteden (KMMA); 1ɗ, Simba Lokolenge (Lulonga), V.1927, J. Ghesquière (KMMA).
Distribution
Cameroon, Congo (D.R.), Equatorial Guinea.
Comments
Sexual dimorphism is rare among the Carpophthoromyia species. In some cases, such as in C. tessmanni, C. litterata and C. scutellata, there is a difference in colouration of the legs with the female having darker femora. The original type series consisted of 5 males and 3 females from Uelleburg (of which 2 males and 2 females are in MNHU and 1 male in BMNH) and one female from Nkolentangan. The whereabouts of the latter and 2 males and 1 female from Uelleburg are unknown.
description: Published as part of Meyer, Marc De, 2006, Systematic revision of the fruit fly genus Carpophthoromyia Austen (Diptera, Tephritidae), pp. 1-48 in Zootaxa 1235 on pages 29-31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172780