True fruit flies of India

Dasyneura tau Walker, 1849: 1074

Dacus hageni de Meijere, 1911: 375

Dacus caudatus var nubilus Hendel, 1912a: 16; White and Wang, 1992: 278 (Synonym)

Dacus nubilus ssp. femoralis Hendel, 1934: 11

Dacus (Zeugodacus) tau Hardy. 1977: 60

Dacus (Zeugodacus) tau: Hardy, 1959: 233

Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) tau Wang, 1996: 72

Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) tau: Norrbom et al., 1999: 104

Dacus (Zeugodacus) elegantis Tseng, Chen and Chu, 1992: 61; Drew and Romig, 2013: 353 (Synonym)

Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) flavus Tseng, Chen and Chu, 1992: 63; Drew and Romig, 2013: 353 (Synonym)

Zeugodacus tau: Doorenweerd et al., 2018: 48

Diptera: Brachycera: Tephritoidea: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini

• Scutum brownish to black with yellow lateral postsutural and medial vittae.
• Two separate black facial spots.
• Wing with costal band from cell sc to wing apex overlapping vein R2+3, expanded apically into a spot.
• Abdomen fulvous with prominent T-shaped mark and lateral black patches on tergites III-V.
• Male with pecten on third abdominal tergum.

Artocarpus heterophyllus Lamk., Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn., Bryonia lacinosa L., Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Mansf., Citrus grandis Osbeck, Cucumis sativus L., Cucurbita maxima Duch., Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley, Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb., Momordica charantia L., Passiflora edulis Sims., Syzygium samarangensis (Bl.), Trichosanthes anguina L., T. palmata Roxb. (Kapoor, 1993; White and Elson-Harris, 1992; Ramani, 1997).

Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarankhand, West Bengal (Agarwal & Sueyoshi, 2005; David & Ramani, 2011).

Agarwal., M. L and Sueyoshi, M. (2005)  Catalogue of Indian Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae).Oriental Ins., 39: 371-433.

David, K. J. and Ramani, S. (2011) An illustrated key to fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of peninsular India and Andaman and Nicobar islands. Zootaxa, 3021: 1-31

de Meijere, J. C. H. (1911) Studien uber Sudostasiatische Dipteren. VI. Tijdschr. Entomol., 54: 258−432.

Drew, R. A. I. and Romig, M. C. (2013) Tropical fruit flies (Tephritidae:Dacinae) of South-East Asia. CAB International, Wallingford, 653 pp.

Hardy, D. E. (1977) Family Tephritidae (Trypetidae, Trupaneidae). In: Delfinado, M.D. and Hardy, D. E. (eds) A Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region, Vol.  III, Suborder Cyclorrhapha (excluding Division Aschiza). University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 44−134.

Hendel, F. G. (1912) H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Genus Dacus, Fabricius (1805) (Diptera). Suppl. Entomol., 1: 13−24.

Hendel, F. G., (1934) Schwedish- chinesische wissenschaftliche Expendition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas, unter Leitung von Dr. Sven Hedin und Prof. Su Ping-chang. Insekten gesammelt vom schwedischen Artz der Expendition Dr. David Hmmel 1927-1930. 13. Diptera. -5. Muscaria holometopa. Ark. Zool., 25: 1−18.

Kapoor, V.C. (1993) Indian fruit flies (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae). Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 228

Ramani, S. (1997) Biosystematic studies on fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) with special reference to the fauna of Karnataka and Andaman and Nicobar. Ph.D. (Agri.Ent) Thesis, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.

Tseng, Y. H., Chen, C. C. and Chu, Y. I. (1992) The fruit flies. Genus Dacus Fabricius of Taiwan (Diptera: Tephritidae). J.Taiwan Mus., 45: 15−91.

Walker, F. (1849) List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. British Museum (Natural History), London, 689−1172.

White, I .M. and Elson–Harris, M.  M. (1992) Fruit flies of economic significance: their identification and bionomics. CAB International, Wallingford, UK., pp601.