DOI: 10.15468/x55v3m
title: Color Morphs in Anastrepha nigrotaenia (Enderlein), New Combination (Diptera: Tephritidae) and Resultant Synonymy

description: This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Norrbom, Allen L., Moore, Matthew R., Paynter, Quentin, McGrath, Zane, Probst, Chantal M., Korneyev, Valery A., Wiegmann, Brian M., Cassel, Brian, Rodriguez, Erick J., Steck, Gary J., Sutton, Bruce D., Branham, Marc A., Ruiz-Arce, Raul (2024): Color Morphs in Anastrepha nigrotaenia (Enderlein), New Combination (Diptera: Tephritidae) and Resultant Synonymy. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 126 (1): 21-55, DOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.126.1.21, URL: https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.126.1.21Abstract.— Flies of the curvicauda group of the genus Anastrepha with different color patterns that were previously recognized as four species are here reported to be color morphs of a single species, Anastrepha nigrotaenia (Enderlein), new combination, on the basis of morphological and molecular study. The names Toxotrypana australis Blanchard, Toxotrypana nigra Blanchard, Toxotrypana picciola Blanchard, and Toxotrypana proseni Blanchard, as well as Toxotrypana pseudopicciola Blanchard, previously considered a junior synonym of T. nigra, are here considered new synonyms of A. nigrotaenia. Specimens reared from the same samples of fruit of Araujia sericifera Brot. (Apocynaceae) in Uruguay that comprised three species based on the previous morphological concepts were nearly all identical in COI and 16S sequences and all clustered in a single clade with other specimens of these taxa in phylogenetic and multispecies coalescence analyses based on 1347 ortholog loci obtained with Anchored Hybrid Enrichment. A redescription and diagnosis are provided for A. nigrotaenia, and its host plant and distribution data are compiled and summarized.Key Words: Araujia sericifera, Toxotrypana australis, Toxotrypana nigra, Toxotrypana picciola, Toxotrypana proseni, Toxotrypana pseudopicciola, curvicauda groupDOI: 10.4289/0013-8797.126.1.21The Anastrepha curvicauda species group (previously recognized as the genus Toxotrypana; see Norrbom et al. 2018), includes brightly colored yellow and dark brown flies that are thought to be wasp mimics. They have reduced setation, wing patterns with only a broad costal band and a weak cubital streak, elongate ovipositors, and superficially resemble vespid wasps. The taxonomy of the group has been poorly resolved, in part due to the occurrence of a broad range of color patterns making species concepts difficult to delimit.The known host plants of species of the curvicauda group are species of Caricaceae and Apocynaceae that have milky latex and fruits with thick husks. One of these plants, Araujia sericifera Brot., commonly known as moth plant, mothcatcher, cruelplant or white bladderflower, is an invasive weed in southern Europe, Israel, South Africa, the United States, Australia and New Zealand (Winks and Fowler 2000, Coombs and Peter 2010). As part of investigations of natural enemies of this plant, staff of Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research New Zealand (MNLRNZ) reared flies from fruits that according to the current morphology-based taxonomy would be considered three different Anastrepha species. Further investigation using molecular techniques indicate that these “species” are actually color morphs of one biological species. This paper reports the results of these investigations and the subsequent synonymy of the names used for these color morphs.