Anastrepha rafaeli Norrbom & Korytkowski
Creators: name: Norrbom, Allen L.
name: Uchôa, Manoel A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Anastrepha
Anastrepha rafaeli

description: Anastrepha rafaeli Norrbom & Korytkowski
Figs. 3, 4
Anastrepha sp. 2: Bomfim et al. 2007a: 220.
Anastrepha rafaeli Norrbom & Korytkowski 2009: 49.
Variation (in Tocantins specimens versus type specimens from Roraima). Head: Vertex in one female with short brown extension from posterior margin of ocellar brown marking, in other 3 specimens with complete U-shaped brown mark on posterior half of orbital plate and vertex, touching eye, connected only to posterior side of mark on ocellar tubercle.
Thorax: Mesonotum 2.95–3.20 [2.96–3.19 in type specimens] mm long.
Wing (Figs. 3–4): Length 7.17–7.32 [6.17–6.83] mm, width 3.14 [2.74–3.07] mm, ratio 2.28–2.33 [2.11–2.26]. Apex of vein R1 at 0.54–0.55 [0.52–0.54] wing length. Cell c 1.23–1.38 [1.14–1.30] times as long as pterostigma; pterostigma 2.62–2.73 [2.50–2.83] times as long as wide. Crossvein r-m at 0.64–0.66 [0.60–0.65] distance from bm-cu to dm-cu on vein M. Vein M only slightly curved apically; cell r4+5 1.11–1.19 [1.06–1.22] times as wide at apex as at level of dm-cu. Cell bcu with distal lobe moderately long, length of bcu 1.57–1.65 [1.62–1.70] times as long as anterior margin. Hyaline area in cell br small, but reaching vein R4+ 5 in all 4 specimens. Hyaline basomarginal spot in cell r1 with apex aligned with crossvein r-m. Hyaline subapical area proximal to S-band extending into cell r1 (in all 4 specimens). V-band incomplete, proximal arm broadly connected to S-band in cell r2+3 and sometimes (2 of 4 specimens) in cell r4+5 (hyaline area between bands very narrow in the other 2 specimens); distal arm isolated but extending anteriorly to vein R4+5.
Male terminalia: Phallus 2.50 [2.45–2.75] mm long, 0.85 [0.82–0.93] times as long as mesonotum.
Female terminalia: Oviscape 2.46–2.55 [2.00–2.17] mm long, 0.77–0.81 [0.65–0.68] times as long as mesonotum; distal half to two-thirds brown; spiracle at basal 0.35–0.36 [0.38–0.39]. Eversible membrane with 25–30 [20– 25] large, hook-like dorsobasal scales in triangular pattern. Aculeus 2.29–2.34 [1.71–1.72] mm long; in ventral view base 0.19–0.20 [0.18–0.19] mm wide; shaft 0.10–0.11 [0.10] mm wide at midlength; tip 0.22–0.23 [0.16] mm long, 0.095–0.10 [0.08–0.09] mm wide, 2.30–2.32 [1.78–2.39] times as long as wide, 0.055–0.60 [0.04–0.05] mm wide in lateral view, 0.55–0.63 [0.50–0.56] times ventral width, apical 0.68–0.74 [0.69–0.75]. Spermathecae not examined.
Distribution. Anastrepha rafaeli was previously known from Brazil (Roraima) and possibly western Venezuela (based on tentatively identified specimen without abdomen). The specimens from Tocantins extend the known distribution considerably southward.
Material examined. BRAZIL: Tocantins: Vale de Taquaruçú, Municipio Palmas, Chácara Arara Azul (fazenda), 10°21'35"S 48°7'40"W, 485 m, McPhail trap in native forest, 8 Jan 2005, D. A. do Bomfim 229, 1Ψ (USNM USNMENT 00671865); Chácara Arara Azul (fazenda), 10°21'54"S 48°8'9"W, 455 m, McPhail trap in native forest, 8 Jan 2005, D. A. do Bomfim 230, 1Ψ (UFGD USNMENT 00671867); same, D. A. do Bomfim 301, 1% (UFGD USNMENT 00671866); Municipio Porto Nacional, Fazenda Capangueiro, 10°44'57"S 48°42'46"W, 414 m, McPhail trap in mango, 8 Jan 2005, D. A. do Bomfim 250, 1Ψ (USNM USNMENT 00671845).
Comments. The specimens from Tocantins differ somewhat from the type specimens from Roraima in wing pattern and female terminalia length, but the aculeus tip is very similar, particularly in having the basal serrations curving slightly onto the dorsal side. We consider them probably conspecific with the Roraima specimens.
description: Published as part of Norrbom, Allen L. & Uchôa, Manoel A., 2011, New species and records of Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Brazil, pp. 61-67 in Zootaxa 2835 on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277361