Pseudopelmatops continentalis Zia & Chen
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaolin
name: Zhang, Yanzhou
name: Li, Jie
name: Zhu, Chaodong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Pseudopelmatops
Pseudopelmatops continentalis

description: Pseudopelmatops continentalis Zia & Chen   
(Figs. 6, 15, 25, 30, 39, 42, 47)  
 Pseudopelmatops nigricostalis continentalis Zia & Chen, 1954: 310. Type-locality: Tianmushan, Zhejiang; Chongan [not Shao-Woo as originally recorded by Zia & Chen (1954)], Fujian, China. Lectotype male and three paralectotypes designated by Wang, 1996 in IZCAS. — Hardy, 1977: 76. — Wang, 1996: 112.   
 Diagnosis. This species is similar to P. nigricostalis Shiraki in wing markings, but differs by lacking frontal and postsutural supra-alar setae; and femora yellow except the basal 1/2–3/5 dark brown. It also closely resembles P. angustifasciatus in body coloration and chaetotaxy of the head and thorax, but is easily distinguished by having a much broader brownish-black costal band extending proximally to the base of cell r 1 (Fig. 30).   
 Description. Body length 13.5–16.0 mm; wing length 10.5–13.0 mm. The body usually predominantly dark brown to black and sub-shining (Fig. 6).   
 Head (Figs. 15, 25): dark brown to black except the middle of frons with a very narrow yellow longitudinal stripe; ventral 1/2 of face, parafacial and palpus yellow to yellow-brown. Palpus narrow, parallelsided and densely covered with strong, black setulae. Chaetotaxy reduced: head with orbital, medial vertical and genal setae present; postocellar, lateral vertical, ocellar, and frontal setae absent. Antenna almost equal to face, with 1 st flagellomere about 1/4–1/3 as wide as long, and 1 st flagellomere dorsoapically slightly sharp; arista plumose, longest ray slightly shorter or about equal to width of 1 st flagellomere.   
Thorax entirely dark brown to black except for scutum with two slightly broad grayish-white microtrichose longitudinal stripes, halter yellow. Chaetotaxy reduced: only 1 notopleural, 1 postalar and 1 apical scutellar setae present.  
 Wing (Fig. 30). Largely hyaline with a broad brownish-black costal band extending from the base of cell r 1 to the wing tip, all the posterior margin in the cells br and r 4+5; pterostigma yellow-brown, narrow and long, about 0.97–1.00 times as long as cell c. Vein R 4+5 bare.   
Legs. Slender and long. Coxa, trochanter and the basal 2/3 of femora dark brown, other parts yellow brown.  
Abdomen elongate with tergites yellow-brown to dark brown; tergites 1–2 combined nearly parallel-sided and almost as long as tergites 3 and 4 combined.  
Male terminalia: Epandrium large and broad, rounded in posterior view (Fig. 39); lateral surstylus small and short, apex rounded in lateral view (Fig. 42); medial surstylus with 1 black prensiseta. Glans slightly expanded medially, without distinct acrophallus and membranous subapical lobe (Fig. 47).  
Female. Unknown.  
 Distribution. China (Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan). Hunan and Hubei are new province records for this species.   
 Type data. Lectotype ♂ (IZCAS), CHINA: Zhejiang: Tianmushan, 8. July 1936 (examined); paraletotypes: 1 ♂, same data with lectotype (examined); 1 ♂, same locality as lectotype, 20 July 1936 (examined); 1 ♂ (IZCAS), CHINA: Fujian: Chongan, 24 July 1944 (examined).   
 Other specimens examined. CHINA: Hunan: Sangzhi, 1200m, 14 August 2001, J. Wen & N.T. Huang, 1 ♁ (IZCAS). Hubei: Shennongjia, 900m, 11 August 2004, Z. Wang, 1♁ (IZCAS). Sichuan: Mt. Emei, 27 July 1957, Y. C. Lu, 1♁ (IZCAS). Yunnan: Kunming, 1200 m, 7 July 1956, K. R. Huang, 1♁ (IZCAS).   
 Remark. The type specimens of Ps. angustifasciatus (females) and Ps. continentalis (males) were collected in the same days and locality. Considering sexually dimorphic of wing pattern in this group, a possibility that they are conspecific has been considered seriously. However, their unpublished DNA sequence data from author’s recent molecular experiment didn’t support this suppose so far.
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiaolin, Zhang, Yanzhou, Li, Jie & Zhu, Chaodong, 2010, A review of stalk-eyed fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae), pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 2654 (1) on pages 9-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2654.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301417