Clusiosomina is a genus of tephritid fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.[1][2] Occurring in eastern Australia, it is a monotypic taxon with the single species Clusiosomina puncticeps.[3][4]
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Description edit
In adults of C. puncticeps, the face, scutum and abdomen are all yellow. The face has a pair of brown lateral spots ventrally. The scutum has a pair of submedial brown stripes that extend onto the scutellum laterally. There is also a lateral stripe extending from each postpronotal lobe to each wing base. The abdomen has broad brown lateral margins. The wings are mostly brown except for the basomedial portions, which are subhyaline (partly transparent). In males, the foretibia has two preapical setae and the fore basitarsus has an apically spinulose anteroventral process.[3][4]
Males are 4.5-4.7 mm long with wing length 4.0-4.2 mm, while females are 5.0-5.3 mm long with wing length 4.4-4.7 mm.[3]
Ecology edit
Larvae of C. puncticeps feed in fig fruits (Ficus), like some other species in the Clusiosoma subgroup.[4]
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References edit
- ^ "Clusiosomina - Nomen.at - animals and plants". nomen.at. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- ^ "Clusiosomina puncticeps (Malloch, 1939)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- ^ a b c Permkam, S; Hancock, Dl (1995). "Australian Trypetinae (Diptera : Tephritidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 9 (6): 1047. doi:10.1071/IT9951047. ISSN 1445-5226.
- ^ a b c Hancock, David L. (2015-09-01). "A review of the tree, fig and fruit-infesting flies of the 'Aethiothemara', 'Diarrhegma', 'Dirioxa' and 'Themaroides' groups of genera (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini)". Australian Entomologist. 42 (3): 107–126.