Ceratitis (Ceratalaspis) scaevolae (Munro 1929)

Body length: 4.60-6.2 mm
Male:
Antenna yellow to yellow-orange, arista bare. Face usually yellow-white.
Postpronotum white, unspotted. Ground colour of mesonotum pale with slight orange tinge. Scutellum white, with three black markings joined apically; basally no spots. Subscutellum completely dark.
Wing bands with markings extensively yellow to yellow-brown.
Abdomen yellow.
Female:
Scutellar spots occasionally joined together, forming one large semicircular spot. Oviscape
shorter than abdominal terga 3-6 combined.

Original description & illustration of wing in:
Munro, H. K. (1929). New Trypetidae from South Africa (Dipt.). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 20(4), 391–. doi:10.1017/s0007485300021337
https://sci-hub.ee/10.1017/s0007485300021337

Photo on GBIF (BMNH):
https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1270015128#occurrencePage_media

Host plant: Scaevola spp.

iNat observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178858009
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69194943

Publicado el 20 de enero de 2024 por traianbertau