Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
This species is in the fraterculus-group.
Features include:
- frons without brown markings except ocellar tubercle
- mesonotum with three pale postsutural vittae
- scutum posteriorly without brown markings or with only a single medial brown spot on scuto-scutellar suture, without brown vittae
- scutellum entirely yellow or with dark markings only on extreme base of disk
- subscutellum entirely yellow to orange, or yellow to red-brown medially, dark brown laterally; mediotergite yellow to red-brown medially, dark brown laterally
- wing with typical Anastrepha pattern (S-band complete or at most interrupted at crossvein r-m, C-band and at least proximal arm of V-band present), C-band and S-band connected, V-band proximal arm as dark as apical half of S band, not connected anteriorly to S-band, V-band distal arm complete
- abdominal tergites without brown markings
- oviscape length 2.3 – 3.5 mm
- aculeus length 2.25 – 3.42 mm
- aculeus tip length 0.34 – 0.43 mm
- aculeus tip width: 0.12 – 0.16 mm
- lateral margins of aculeus tip not curved dorsally.
Morphological – larvae
See Pest Fruit Flies of the World – Larvae website
Molecular
DNA barcoding
BOLD reference data available, but cannot be distinguished from A. fraterculus, A. ludens, A. obliqua, or A. suspensa.
PCR-RFLP Test 1
BsrI: Data not available
HinfI: Data not available
HhaI: Data not available
Sau3AI: Data not available
SnaBI: Data not available
SspI: Data not available
Vspl: Data not available
PCR-RFLP Test 2
Data not available
