Sundaresta malaisei (Hering)
Nomenclature
Xyphosia malaisei Hering, 1938: 52
Sundaresta malaisei: Hancock and McGuire, 2002: 11
Taxonomic position
Diptera: Brachycera: Tephritoidea: Tephritidae: Tephritinae: Pliomelaenini
Diagnosis
- Scutum and abdomen grey pollinose
- Wing oval, dark brown with hyaline indentations along the margins and hyaline spots in the cells
- In females, oviscape dark brown longer than abdomen
Host plants
Strobilanthes imbricatus (Acanthaceae) (Hancock and McQuire, 2002)
Distribution
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Selected References
Hancock, D.L. and McGuire, D.J. (2002) New species and records of non-dacine fruit flies (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) from south and southeast Asia. Steenstrupia, 27 (1), 1-17.
Hering, E. M. (1938b) Entomological results from the Swedish Expedition to Burma and British India. Diptera: Fam. Trypetidae. [23. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae]. Arkiv for Zoology, 30A (25), 56 p.
