Ceratitis melanopus (Hering 1942)

Ceratitis (Pterandrus) melanopus (Hering)
Pardalaspis melanopus Hering, 1942: 282.
Body length: male 3.35, female 5.40 mm; wing length: male 4.20, female 5.60
mm.

Male
Head:
Antenna brownish. First flagellomere twice as long as pedicel. Arista with short rays. Frons convex; yellowish orange with weak silvery shine; with short scattered setulae of same color as frons. Frontal setae well developed. Face yellowish orange. Thorax:
Postpronotal lobe white, not spotted. Scutal pattern, ground color darkish gray to brown, microtrichose areas with ashgray shine, poorly developed lateral yellow lines, prescutellar white markings separate, with grayish area in between. Scapular setae dark. Scutellum white, basally without dark spots, apically more yellowish with three separate spots. Legs:
orange to brown; setation typical for subgenus, dark. Without feathering. Wing:
Bands brown. Interruption between marginal and discal bands near vein R clear and complete; cubital band free; medial band absent; crossvein R-M proximal to middle of discal cell. Apex of vein R1 distal to level of crossvein R-M. Crossvein DM-Cu oblique posterobasally. Abdomen:
Mostly pale orange. Tergite 3 with posterior half brown. Setation and banding typical for subgenus.
Male terminalia not dissected.
Female
As male except for the following characters:
Rays on arista longer but not plumose. First flagellomere longer. Face yellow. Scutal pattern slightly different, with more obscured orange lateral stripes, area between prescutellar markings more orange. Marginal band partly interrupted. Oviscape about as long as preabdomen. Aculeus at least eight times longer than wide; tip with distinct apical indentation and lateral margin more or less straight.
(Description after De Meyer & Freidberg, 2006)
See description of Ceratitis melanopus (Hering, 1942) in source PDF.

Ceratitis melanopus​ ​ es una especie de insecto del género Ceratitis de la familia Tephritidae del orden Diptera.

Erich Martin Hering la describió científicamente por primera vez en el año 1942.

Ceratitis melanopus adalah spesies lalat yang tergolong famili Tephritidae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Diptera, kelas Insecta, filum Arthropoda, dan kingdom Animalia.

Kebanyakan anggota spesies ini bertelur dalam jaringan tumbuhan, tempat larva menemukan makanan pertamanya setelah lahir. Lalat dewasa biasanya berumur sangat pendek. Beberapa hidup selama kurang dari seminggu.

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