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©EntomologicaFennica.13March2012 Anew species of Tephritis Latreille (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Iran SaeedMohamadzadeNamin Mohamadzade Namin, S. 2011: Anew species of Tephritis Latreille (Diptera: Tephritidae)fromIran.—Entomol.Fennica22:284–288. Tephritisnozariisp.n.fromEastAzerbaijanProvince(NorthWestofIran)isde- scribedandillustrated.ItissimilartoT.hendelianaHering,T.hyosciamiLinnae- usandT.multiguttataBeckerinitspalebrownishgreywingpattern,differingby thenumberofhyalinespotsinmarginalpartofr cellandsomeotherdetailsof 1 pattern.Cellr inT.nozariisp.n.contains3subequallylargespots(resembling 1 someCampiglossaspecies),acharacterrarelyencounteredinTephritis. S.MohamadzadeNamin,YoungResearchersClub,Varamin-PishvaBranch,Is- lamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran; E-mail: mohamadzade@iauvaramin. ac.ir Received14June2011,accepted31August2011 1.Introduction scutellumwith2pairsofsetae,apicalsetaabout 0.5–0.6timesaslongasbasalseta.Wingwithre- With about 120 species (Norrbom et al. 1999, ticulate pattern, highly variable among the spe- Korneyev & Dirlbek 2000, Freidberg & Kutuk cies,usually with2largeandonesmallhyaline 2002,Kutuk2008),TephritisLatreilleisthelarg- spotsincellr and2darkbarsdivergenttoapices 1 est genus of Tephritidae in the Palaearctic Re- ofveinsR andM,orwiththesespotsisolated 4+5 gion.MostspeciesofTephritisinfesttheflower- fromtherestofthemarkings;cellbcuwithshort headsofAsteraceaehostsofseveraltribes,with posteroapical extension. Abdomen commonly orwithouttheinductionofgalls. Afewspecies microtrichose,usuallywhitishsetulose(inafew induceformationofgallsintheupperorsubterra- specieswidelyshiningand/orwithblacksetulae); nean parts of stems of Asteraceae (Freidberg epandrium oval, with 2 small subequal prensi- 1984). setae; glans elongate and weakly sclerotized, Tephritis are small to medium-sized flies, withmembranouspart(sometimescalledvesica) whichcanberecognizedby thecombinationof aboutaslongasbasalsclerotizedpart,differing the following characters: proboscis capitate; 2 mainlybywiderornarroweroutlinesamongspe- frontal and 2 orbital setae present; posterior or- cies; oviscape somewhat flattened dorso- bital(exceptin T. arnicaeLinnaeus) andlateral ventrally, with shape of its apex often species- verticalsetaewhitishandacuminate;postocular specific; 2 spermathecae, elongate oval to pear- setaewhitishandlanceolate;posteriornotopleu- shapedindifferentspecies(Merz1994,Freidberg ralsetawhite(exceptinT. conuraLoew and T. &Kutuk2002,S.Korneyev,pers.comm.). arnicae); anepisternal, katepisternal and ane- Duringthestudyoftephritidfliesinthefauna pisternal usually concolorous with most setae, ofAzerbaijanregion(NWIran)in2009–2011,a other setae brownish or blackish; dorsocentral previously unknown species of the genus setaonorslightlyposteriortotransversesuture; Tephritis was collected on flower heads of Cir- ENTOMOL.FENNICAVol.22 (cid:127) AnewspeciesofTephritisfromIran 285 sium sp. (Asteraceae). The new species is de- pound eye 1.3 times as high as long. Gena 0.5 scribedandfiguredbelow. times as high as length of first flagellomere. Ocellar, median vertical, anterior orbital and frontal setae dark brown and acuminate; genal 2.Materialandmethods setapalebrownandacuminate;remainingsetae whitish or yellowish and lanceolate; setulae on Theexaminedmaterialwasminuten-pinnedand anteriorpartofgena,distalpartofpalpusandon depositedincollectionsofthefollowinginstitu- pedicel brownish; remaining setulae whitish tions: (Figs.1b,2b). Thorax: Ground color black, covered with – JAZM, Jalal Afashar Zoological Museum, gray microtomentum. Postpronotal lobe, dorsal CollegeofAgriculture,UniversityofTehran, margin of anepisternum, posterior part of noto- Karaj,Iran pleuralareaaroundposteriornotopleuralsetaand – SIZK,I.I.SchmalhausenInstituteofZoolo- scutellummarginyellow.Basalpartofscutellum gy,NationalAcademyofSciencesofUkrai- darkbrownandtheareabetweenscutellarsetae ne,Kiev,Ukraine brownish.Dorsocentralsetasituatedslightlypos- – Author’spersonalcollection. teriortotransversesuture.Mostsetaedarkbrown andacuminate;posteriornotopleuralsetayellow- MorphologicalterminologyfollowsWhiteetal. ish and lanceolate; setulae whitish. Anteriour (1999). The following morphometric characters scutellarsetae0.45timesaslongasposteriorones with their abbreviations are used: Body length (Fig.1c).Halteryellow. (BL), Wing length (WL), Aculeus length (AL), Wing: Wing pattern reticulated, pale brown, Dorsal length of oviscape (DOL) and Ventral base of wing hyaline. Stigma yellowish. Cell r 1 lengthofoviscape(VOL). with three subequal hyaline spots distally of R 1 apex; cell r basally hyaline, in distal 0.8 pale 2+3 brown,with3hyalinespotinmiddleportionand 3.DescriptionofTephritisnozarii connectedwithhyalinespotsincellr and2api- 1 MohamadzadeNaminsp.n. cal spots, both of them connected with 2 (Figs.1–3) subapical hyaline spots in r cell. Cell br 4+5 hyaline,indistal1/3palebrownwith3–4hyaline Type material. Holotype (female): Iran: East spotsand2partly confluentdotsalignedtor-m Azerbaijan province, 30 km SE Tabriz, Sahand crossvein. Cell r with 2 partly confluent dots 4+5 Mountain, 2,900 m a.s.l., 30.VIII.2010, swept aligned to r-m crossvein, elongate trapezoid or fromCirsiumsp.,MohamadzadeandNajarpoor subrectangularspotaswideascelland7hyaline leg.(JAZM). spotsapicalofthem.Apicalspotborderedby 2 Paratypes:2#,3$,samecollectiondataasin moderatelywideapicalraysjoinedtoremaining holotype;1$,ArdabilProvince,SabalanMoun- darkpatterninmiddleofcellr andalongvein 4+5 tain, 2,500 m a.s.l.; 28.VIII.2010, swept from M. Cell dm hyaline in basal 1/4 and with 5–6 Cirsiumsp.;1$,WestAzerbaijanprovince,3km hyalinespotsindistalportion.Cellmwith5sepa- westZiveh,2,500ma.s.l.,25.V.2011,sweptfrom ratelargeovalhyalinespots;apicalspotnarrowly Cirsiumsp.,(MohamadzadeandNajarpoorleg.) touching subapical hyalinespot in r cell. Cell 4+5 (someparatypesaredepositedalsoinSIZKand cua brown in anterior part of longitudinal fold, author’spersonalcollection). with 3 large and 2 apical small hyaline spots. Description. Head: Yellowish. Length: Wingpatternwithtwogrey barsextendinginto height:widthratio=1:1.15:1.47.Ocellarspot, anal cell. Vein R with 0–2 setulae ventrally 4+5 markonupperpartofocciputandslenderpartof (Figs.1a,2a). arista black. Antennae yellow, scape covered Legs: Brownish yellow with black setulae. withdenselyblacksetulae.Facewhitishyellow. Forefemurwithtwodorsalandoneventralrows Firstflagellomereroundedantro-ventralyand1.6 of setae. Mid tibia with long black spur ventro- timesaslongaswide.Fronsaswideaseye.Com- apicaly. 286 MohamadzadeNamin (cid:127) ENTOMOL.FENNICAVol.22 Fig.1.Tephritisnozarii sp.n.–a.Female(Ho- lotype),totalview,left. –b.Male,head,left. –c.Female(Holotype), mesonotum. Abdomen:Groundcolorblack,verysparsely longaswide,apicallyrounded,withoutpreapical greyishmicrotrichoseandwhitishsetulose.Hind steps, as in Figs. 2c–d. Spermathecae as in Fig. marginoftergite6infemaleandtergite5inmale 2e,elongateoval,3.7timesaslongaswide. withlongbrownsetae.Malegenitaliasimilarto Measurements:#:BL=4.2–4.6mm;WL= otherTephritisspecies,phalluswithoutspurson 4–4.3mm;$:BL=5.2–5.7;WL=4.2–4.6mm; preglans; glans (Fig. 3) very slender, mostly DLO=1.2–1.4mm;VLO=1.4–1.6mm;AL= membranous. Oviscape shiny black with a few 1.6–1.7mm. whitishsetaeatbasal1/3dorsallyandventrally. Etymology. The species is named after Dr. Oviscapeaboutaslongaspreceding4abdominal Jamasb Nozari, in recognition of his valuable tergites.Aculeusmoderatelynarrow,6.5timesas contributionintostudyofIranianLepidoptera. ENTOMOL.FENNICAVol.22 (cid:127) AnewspeciesofTephritisfromIran 287 Fig.2.Tephritisnozariisp.n.–a.Wingpattern.–b.Head.–c.Aculeus.–d.Aculeustip.–e.Spermathecae. –f.Epandrium. 4.Discussion (e.g., C. contingens Becker, C. ignobilis Loew) differingbythatcharacterfromallknownPalae- Tephritis nozarii sp. n. superficially resembles arcticspeciesofTephritis.It,however,clearlybe- somespeciesofthegenusCampiglossaRondani longstothegenusTephritisbasedonthestructure inhaving3subequalhyalinespotsinther cell ofphallusglans,bearingnosclerotizedpartsinits 1 288 MohamadzadeNamin (cid:127) ENTOMOL.FENNICAVol.22 Acknowledgments.Iwishtoexpressmysincerethanksto Dr.ValeryA.Korneyev(SchmalhausenInstituteofZool- ogy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine)forreadingearlyversionsofthismanuscriptand usefulcriticalcomments.IthankalsoMrs.ArezooNajar- poor(MScstudentofEntomologyatUniversityofTehran) forherhelptotheauthorduringfieldworkinEastAzer- baijanProvince.Ialsothanktwoanonymousrefereesfor theirvaluablecommentsandcriticism.Thisstudywassup- ported by Islamic Azad University, Varamin-Pishva branch. 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