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Issue: Vol. 3780 No. 3: 24 Mar. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.3.8
Page range: 567–576
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Euphorbia tehuacana (Euphorbiaceae) in Mexico

Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA, ARS, c/o Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA.
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Escuela de Biología, Puebla, México
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Escuela de Biología, Puebla, México
Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Xalapa, México
Instituto de Ecología, A. C. Xalapa, México
fruit flies taxonomy host plant

Abstract

Anastrepha tehuacana, a new species of Tephritidae (Diptera) from Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico reared from seeds of Euphorbia tehuacana (Brandegee) V.W. Steinm. (Euphorbiaceae), is described and illustrated. Its probable relationship to A. relicta Hernández-Ortiz is discussed.