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Euaresta reticulata (Hendel)

Recognition
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Euaresta reticulata differs from all other species of Euaresta by its bicolored wing pattern, with the basal 3/4 paler than the apex. It has numerous, relatively small, hyaline spots. Based on wing pattern alone it might be confused with some species of Euarestoides and Trypanaresta that have similar bicolored wings. Like other species of Euaresta, E. reticulata differs from Euarestoides in having 2 rather than 3 frontal setae, and from Trypanaresta in having a pair of small dorsal preapical setae on the hind femur.

Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Subfamily: Tephritinae. Genus: Euaresta. Species: reticulata. Author: Hendel..
Relationships among the species of Euaresta were analyzed by Norrbom (1993). Click here for more detailed discussion of Euaresta phylogeny. Euaresta reticulata has been placed in the bullans species group.

Names Used for this Species
Trypanea reticulata Hendel 1914: 81.
Tephritis apicata Becker 1919: 195.
Plaumannimyia reticulata: Hering 1941: 158.
Plaumannimyia apicata: Foote 1967: 35.
Euaresta reticulata: Steyskal 1972: 130.
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Type Data
reticulata: Syntypes - 10 male & female (SMT, MNM), Peru: Lares Valley, 2000 m., 9 Aug; Callabamba, 3000 m.; Arequipa: Arequipa, 19 Nov; Cuzco: Sicuani, 19 Jun; & Cuzco, 3300 m., 19 Jun; Junin: Tarma, 3000 m., 20 Jan. The Schnuse specimens from Arequipa, Cuzco, Sicuani, and Tarma, Peru in the AMNH and DEI collections are not syntypes of T. reticulata, but they come from the same large collection series.
apicata: Syntypes - 5 male & female (MNHNP, USP?), Ecuador: environs of Tulcan; Riobamba, 2754 m; and Troya, 3513 m; 1902, Rivet). A male in the USP collection from Ecuador, "env. de Tulcan" may be a syntype or at least is from the same collection series as some of the syntypes of T. apicata. It has a handwritten label with "Tephritis apicata Bck." and its locality data are on a "MUSEUM PARIS" label.

Distribution
Euaresta reticulata is known from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
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Biology
The host plants and biology of E. reticulata are unknown, although it probably breeds in female flowers of one or more species of Ambrosia. It has been collected on Ambrosia artemisioides in Ecuador.

Economic Significance
Euaresta reticulata is not known to be of economic significance.

References
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Aczél, M. L. 1950. Catalogo de la familia "Trypetidae" (Dipt. Acalypt.) de la region neotropical. Acta Zoologica Lilloana (1949) 7: 177-328. [p. 284, in catalog]
Becker, T. 1919. Dipteres, Brachyceres, pp. 191-196. In Mission du Service geographique de l'Armee. Mesure d'un Arc de Meridien Equatorial en Amerique du Sud 10: 163-214. [p. 195, taxonomy]
Foote, R. H. 1967. Family Tephritidae (Trypetidae, Trupaneidae). In N. Papavero, ed., A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Departmento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, São Paulo. Fasc. 57, 91 pp. [p. 35, in catalog]
Hendel, F. 1914. Die Bohrfliegen Südamerikas. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlich Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden (1912) 14: 1-84. [description]
Hering, E. M. 1941. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae, pp. 121-176. In E. Titschack, Beitrage zur Fauna Perus, Band 1. Hamburg. [p. 158, taxonomy; Peru]
Norrbom, A. L. 1993. New species and phylogenetic analysis of Euaresta Loew (Diptera: Tephritidae) with a key to the species from the Americas south of Mexico. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 95: 195-209. [revision, phylogenetic relationships]
Norrbom, A. L., L. E. Carroll, F. C. Thompson, I. M. White & A. Freidberg. 1999. Systematic database of names, pp. 65-251. In F. C. Thompson (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. Myia (1998) 9, vii + 524 pp. & Diptera Data Dissemination Disk (CD-ROM) (1998) 1. [p. 145, in catalog]
Steyskal, G. C. 1972. Euaresta reticulata (Hendel), new combination (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 74: 130. [taxonomy; Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia]

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