Cryptodacus obliquus Hendel
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Pedro Alexander
name: Rodriguez, Erick J.
name: Norrbom, Allen L.
name: Arévalo, Emilio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Cryptodacus
Cryptodacus obliquus

description: Cryptodacus obliquus Hendel
Figs. 13, 18, 26, 36, 37
Additional description. Male abdomen: Mostly brown. Tergites 3–5 medially, and sometimes syntergite 1+2 posteromedially, with aligned narrow yellow spots or more complete marks forming vitta, marks sometimes minute or rarely absent on tergites 3–4; posterior margin of syntergite 1+2 and tergites 3–4 sometimes with posterior margin also narrowly yellow on medial 1/3–2/3. Tergite 5 also with at least posterior margin yellow, narrowing laterally, or more extensively yellow (at least anterior and lateral margins brown).
Female abdomen (Fig. 26): Mostly brown. Tergites 3–5 medially with aligned narrow yellow spots or more complete marks forming vitta, marks sometimes minute or rarely absent on tergites 3–4. Tergite 6 mostly orange except laterally.
Female terminalia (measurements, n=2): oviscape orange (Fig. 26) stout, 1.52 mm long. Aculeus (Fig. 36) 1.14–1.26 mm long, 0.19–0.20 mm wide, tip (Fig. 37) 0.28–0.29 mm long, 0.12–0.14 mm wide, with 2 pairs of small steps or lobes at distal 0.65–0.68 and subapically. 3 spermathecae subspherical, with short base.
Specimens examined. BOLIVIA: Santa Cruz: Andrés Ibañez, Potrerillo del Guenda, clearing, 17.67074°S 63.45763°W, 401 m., Malaise trap, 9–17 Oct 2014, B. D. Sutton, A. L. Norrbom & E. Quisberth, 1♂ (FSCA); same, entrance road, 17.67172°S 63.45489°W, 413 m, trap ML-PG-03, 9–17 Oct 2014, 1♂ (FSCA); same, entrance road, 17.67211°S 63.45415°W, 412 m, trap ML-PG-04, 1♂ (USNM USNMENT00875960); same, entrance road, across river, 17.67601°S 63.44715°W, 378 m, trap ML-PG-36, 1♂ 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00875966-67); same, entrance road, across river, 17.67506°S 63.44813°W, 374 m, trap ML-PG-38, 1♂ (USNM USNMENT00875963); same, entrance road, across river, trail near 2nd gate, 17.67689°S 63.44706°W, 382 m, trap ML-PG-33, 1♂ (FSCA); same, entrance road, across river, trail near 2nd gate, 17.67657°S 63.44683°W, 383 m, trap ML-PG-34, 2♂ (FSCA), 2♂ (USNM USNMENT00875961-62); same, entrance road, across river, trail near 2nd gate, 17.67635°S 63.44664°W, 385 m, trap ML-PG-35, 1♀ (FSCA); same, N trail, 17.66466°S 63.45963°W, 413 m, trap ML-PG-24, 1♂ (FSCA); same, N trail, 17.66312°S 63.45842°W, 410 m, trap ML-PG-26, 1♂ (USNM USNMENT00875964); same, road to El Hondo, 17.67798°S 63.44761°W, 382 m, trap ML-PG-28, 2♂ (USNM USNMENT00875958-59); same, road to El Hondo, 17.67684°S 63.44624°W, 395 m, trap ML-PG-31, 1♂ (USNM USNMENT00875968); same, road to El Hondo, 17.67684°S 63.44624°W, 395 m, trap ML-PG-31, 1♂ (SENASAG), 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00875969); same, trail to old river bed, 17.6675°S 63.4561°W, 390 m, trap ML-PG-14, 1♂ (FSCA); same, trail to old river bed, 17.66809°S 63.45638°W, 401 m, trap ML-PG-15, 2♂ (FSCA). PERU: Cusco: Echarate region, Mar - Dec 2011, T. Guevara, 1♀ (FSCA) 1♀ (SENASA) 1♀ (USNM USNMENT00875965).
Comments. Previous records and description of this species were based only on males. The female abdomen and terminalia are described above. The aculeus tip has two pairs of small lobes or notches, differing from other species of the genus, in which the margin is serrate. The serrate tip is another synapomorphy for those species, further supporting the hypothesis that C. obliquus is the sister group of the remaining species of Cryptodacus (Norrbom 1994). The number of spermathecae in C. obliquus (3), also differs from the other species of Cryptodacus for which this character has been studied. This number also varies between the two species groups of the related genus Rhagoletotrypeta (Norrbom 1994).
description: Published as part of Rodriguez, Pedro Alexander, Rodriguez, Erick J., Norrbom, Allen L. & Arévalo, Emilio, 2016, A new species and new records of Cryptodacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, pp. 276-290 in Zootaxa 4111 (3) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/264878