Tephritis maccus
Creators: name: Namin, Saeed Mohamadzade
name: Korneyev, Severyn V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Tephritis
Tephritis maccus

description: Key to the species of the Tephritis maccus species group
1 Wing pattern reticulate, radiate or banded; cell r1 with two or three hyaline spots or indentations (if with two spots in r1 and wing apex and cell m with narrow dark “rays”, then cell dm mostly dark with 3–5 hyaline spots); flagellomere 1 apically rounded; aculeus gradually tapered to the apex; with preapical steps or without them [spermathecae variabe]..... Other Tephritis species
- Wing pattern radiate (apex and cell m with narrow dark “rays”), cell r1 either without hyaline spots (Figs. 14–15) or with only one large hyaline spot or indentation (if rarely with two spots, then cell dm mainly hyaline with at most two dark rays crossing it); flagellomere 1 apically acute or pointed; aculeus moderately broad, sharply tapered subapically to short narrow apex (Figs. 4–5); spermathecae pear-shaped (Fig. 8).................................................................... 2
2 Cell r1 without large hyaline spots; apical fork with base broadly connected to main pattern; cell dm dark with one hyaline spot (Figs. 14–15); Iraq, Iran and Turkmenistan ..................................................... T. urelliosomima
- Cell r1 with one large (and sometimes with one smaller) hyaline spot; apical fork with base narrowly connected to main pattern; cell dm hyaline with 2–3 transverse brown rays.............................................................. 3
3 Brown ray in cell dm basal to level of r-m long, reaching middle of cell cua1 (Fig. 13 and Korneyev & Dirlbek 2001, Figs. 2–3). Female: Cell r4+5 at level of dm-cu without or with small hyaline spot; aculeus broad, about 2.5 times as long as wide (Korneyev & Dirlbek 2001, Fig. 8). Male wing with cell r1 usually including 2 hyaline spots: large one touching R2+3 or entering cell r2+3; Spain, France, Italy, Iran, Kyrghyzstan and Afghanistan .................................. T. maccus
- Short brown ray in cell dm basal to level of r-m absent or at most reaching vein Cu1, usually reaching only mid-width of cell dm. Female: cell r4+5 at level of dm-cu with large hyaline spot; aculeus narrower, about 3 times as long as wide. Male wing with large hyaline spot in r1 cell always penetrating to at most mid-width of cell r2+3..................................... 4
4 Brown area around R2+3 apex with broad U-shaped darker spot (including small hyaline spot at R2+3 apex) darker than remaining pattern. Both male and female with 2 hyaline spots in cell r1 (Gentilini et al., 2006: Figs. 30–33, 36–38). Fossil species from Upper Miocene of Italy ................................................................ T. sophus
- Brown area around R2+3 apex as dark as remaining pattern. Female with one spot, male with 2 hyaline spots in cell r1 (Figs. 1–2, 12). Recent species. Azerbaijan and Iran ............................................................... T. azari
description: Published as part of Namin, Saeed Mohamadzade & Korneyev, Severyn V., 2012, Tephritis azari, a New Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Iran and Azerbaijan, with a Key to the Tephritis maccus Species Group, pp. 79-85 in Zootaxa 3590 on pages 83-84, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215220