Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tephritidae, Nepal
#1
May 26, 2016, Rasuwa district, Dhunche env., about 2000m a.s.l. Wing length 6mm.
#2
It looks like a
Trypeta zoe female, but I have not a clear idea about nepalese species.
#3
Trypeta subrhomboidea S. Ito 2011; was described based on a single male, so this is the first known female picture. Please add it to the gallery!
#4
Nosferatumyia wrote:
Trypeta subrhomboidea S. Ito 2011; was described based on a single male, so this is the first known female picture. Please add it to the gallery!
The wing markings of this fly are much more extensive than in the figure accompanying the description of
T. subrhomboidea.
#5
Many thanks to all for your comments. I've got that article by Ito (Esakia, 51: 1-45) and thought it's a
Cornutrypeta, impossible to identify from females.
#6
John Carr, please consider that wing patterns in Trypeta zoe group are conspicuously dimorphic. It fits that concept very well.
Dmitry, there are clear DOUBLE orbital setae; furthermore, no such particular patterns in known Cornu.