Sapadrama citrina Hancock & Marshall 2012
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaolin
name: Wang, Yong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Sapadrama
Sapadrama citrina

description: Sapadrama citrina Hancock & Marshall, 2012
(Figs. 14–20)
Sapadrama citrina Hancock & Marshall, 2012: 58. Chen et al., 2021a: 74.
Diagnosis. A large and predominantly yellowish to rufous species. Head largely yellowish, slightly higher than long, somewhat gibbose; frons with round medial black spot between and anterior to orbital setae. Thorax mostly rufous; scutum rufous with four broad yellowish vittae: two medial vittae that from anterior margin and end at 1/3 apically before posterior margin, two lateral vittae that from 1/5 basally at anterior margin and end at posterior margin. Wing mostly hyaline; yellowish anterior to vein R 4+5 and apex of vein R 2+3, including costal cells; diffuse greybrown patch over apical third connected basally through cell dm to blackish mark over crossvein r–m that does not cross vein R 4+5; cell m with broad but indistinct subhyaline marginal indentation; cell br with narrow yellow band posterior to humeral crossvein, and cells br and bm with yellowish suffusion; pterostigma half length of cell c. Male abdomen club-shaped, narrowed at base; tergites rufous, especially laterally; sternites yellow. Female abdomen elongate; oviscape rufous, subtriangular in dorsal view, with peculiar dorsoapical opening; eversible membrane about as long as tergites V+VI combined, with pair of long, faintly indicated taeniae, apically black with collar of dense, monodentate black scales that are slightly shorter laterally but equally long on dorsal and ventral surfaces (Hancock & Marshall, 2012).
Material examined. 1♀, CHINA: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Menghai, Benggang, 1500m, 29 August 2013, Y. Wang and C. Wang; 2♀, CHINA: Yunnan, Baoshan, Baihuling, 1557m, 24 August 2023, Y. Wang and XL. Chen; 1♀, CHINA: Yunnan, Yingjiang, Tongbiguan, 2 June 2020, Y. Wang, XL. Chen and N Huangfu; 1♀, CHINA: Shaanxi, Meixian, Haoping, 12 July 2012, GD. Ren; 1♀, CHINA: Shaanxi, Liuba, Weituogou, 1600m, 21 July 1998, XZ. Zhang; 1♁, 1♀, CHINA: Shaanxi, Ningshan, Xunyangba, 1350m, 29 July 1998, J. Yao; 1♀, CHINA: Xizang, Nielamu, Zhangmu, 1945m, 1 August 2019, KD. Zhao; 1♀, CHINA: Xizang, Nielamu, Zhangmu, 1892m, 30 July 2019, KD. Zhao; 1♀, CHINA: Gansu, Wenxian, Bifenggou, 940–1500m, 28 July 1999, J. ZhaoYao; 1♀, CHINA: Henan, Xixia, Taiping, 18 July 1998, YS. Shi; 1♁, 1♀, CHINA: Henan, Xixia, Huangshianlinchang, 1400m, 18 July 1998, XY. Hu. All materials deposited in IZCAS.
Distribution: China (Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Xizang); Vietnam (Catcat).
Biology. The fly from Yunnan, Yingjiang, Tongbiguan was collected on the surface of an understory humus layer close to a river in 2020. The flies and two moth larvae (probably belong to Geometridae) from Baoshan, Yunnan, China were collected in August 2023 and have been raised together in a cage. Finally one female fly in the cage was observed to prick body of moth larvae using its abdomen.
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiaolin & Wang, Yong, 2023, A new species of Sapadrama Hancock & Marshall (Diptera: Tephritidae) from China and an updated key to the known species, pp. 488-494 in Zootaxa 5353 (5) on pages 492-493, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/10010443