Platensina acrostacta (Wiedemann)
Nomenclature
Trypeta acrostacta Wiedemann, 1824: 54
Ensina guttata Macquart, 1843: 387
Trypeta stella Walker, 1849: 1030
Trypeta voneda Walker, 1849: 1028
Tephrostola acrostacta: Bezzi, 1913: 153
Platensina acrostacta: Hendel, 1915: 461
Platensina voneda (Walker): Norrbom et al. 1999: 191
Taxonomic position
Diptera: Brachycera: Tephritoidea: Tephritidae: Tephritinae: Dithrycini
Diagnosis
- Face black in males; fulvous in females
- Scutum grey pollinose with well developed chaetotaxy
- Abdomen glossy black in males and females
- Wing broad, predominantly dark brown with hyaline wedges and spots
Host plant
Ludwigia sp. (Fa. Onagraceae) (Hardy, 1973, Hancock, 2012)
Distribution
India (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and Sri Lanka to Cambodia (Hancock 2012)
References
David, K. J., Ramani, S. 2011. An illustrated key to fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Peninsular India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zootaxa, 3021: 1–31.
Hancock, D.L. 2012. Systematic and distributional notes on some Australasian and African species of Platensina Enderlein and Dicheniotes Munro (Diptera: Tephritidae: Tephritinae), with description of a new species of Dicheniotes from Kenya. Australian Entomologist, 39(4): 305–320.
Hardy D.E. 1973. The fruit flies (Tephritidae–Diptera) of Thailand and bordering countries. Pacific Insects Monograph 31: 1–353. [pls i–viii.]
Wiedemann, C.R.W. 1824. Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Kilniae, 60 pp.
