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Anastrepha katiyari Norrbom

Recognition
Anastrepha katiyari belongs to the daciformis species group, which differs from other species of Anastrepha in having the basal third of the scutellum brown, the male phallus extremely short (less than 0.30 mm long) and with the glans absent (as in the dentata group), and with the female eversible membrane dorsobasally with a single, medially interrupted row of very stout scales.  A. katiyari is one of three species with a wing pattern comprising only a narrow, uninterrupted, costal band (not covering all of cell r₂₊₃), a distinct band covering crossvein DM-Cu, and a cubital streak not extended along vein Cu₁ beyond BM-Cu.  It is most similar to daciformis and castanea, but differs as follows: Presutural dorsocentral pale stripe broadly connected anteriorly to pale area on postpronotal lobe; propleuron yellow; female terminalia longer (oviscape length 3.95-4.99 mm, 1.27-1.64 times as long as mesonotum); base of syntergite 1+2 yellow; and scutum largely nonmicrotrichose.

Description
Body predominantly dark orange-brown to dark brown.

Head: Mostly yellow. Frons with brown transverse dorsal band, more or less rectangular and not extended beyond orbital seta or bilobed and broadest along eye margin where it extends anteriorly beyond level of orbital seta. Gena with large brown spot below eye. Occiput yellow, with lateral brown spots or stripes on median occipital sclerite or area bordering it. Posterior orbital seta usually absent (present on one or both sides in 3 of 13 males and on one side only on 3 of 10 females examined by Norrbom 1998).

Thorax: Medial pale stripe bilobed posteriorly, lobes stout to moderately slender, not extended to dorsocentral seta. Presutural dorsocentral pale stripe broadly connected anteriorly to pale area on postpronotal lobe, and connected or narrowly separated from pale sublateral stripe. Presutural lateral pale stripe well differentiated, complete, including posterior part of notopleuron. Pleuron brown except following yellow areas: all of propleuron; anteroventral corner and posterodorsal half of anepisternum; two small dorsal spots on katepisternum, anterior one sometimes very small; katepimeron; anterior 1/4 of meron; anterior 2/3 of katatergite; and most of anatergite. Subscutellum and mediotergite entirely brown or occasionally both orange medially. Scutum without microtrichia medially, microtrichose only on and lateral to sublateral stripe, and on and posterior to expanded posterior part of medial pale stripe; notopleuron microtrichose; scutellum entirely microtrichose except small basal area on side.

Wing: C- and S-bands completely fused along costa to form narrow, uninterrupted, orange and brown marginal band; in cell br not extended to vein M along cell bm; covering all of cell r₁, but cells r₂₊₃ and r₄₊₅ hyaline except apically; apically narrow, but extended to apex of vein M. S-band incomplete, middle part between veins R₂₊₃ and Cu₁ absent; basal part as dark as C-band but hyaline or very faintly infuscated in posterior third or more of cell bcu. V-band as dark as C-band, extended anteriorly no more than 1/3 distance across cell r₄₊₅; distal arm absent. Vein M strongly curved apically; M ratio 1.05-1.34.

Wing.

Abdomen: Syntergite 1+2 broadly pale basally; it and tergites 3-5 each with red-brown band that broadens laterally and extends to lateral margin; band on tergite 5 often interrupted medially. Tergites each with broad apical pale band.

Female terminalia: Oviscape length 3.95-4.99 mm, 1.27-1.64 times as long as mesonotum. Eversible membrane, on expanded basal part, with most dorsal scales weakly sclerotized, but with one, medially interrupted row of large, strongly sclerotized, hooklike scales. Aculeus slender, no more than 0.03 mm wide, except at base, length 3.16-4.53; tip needlelike, nearly circular in cross-section, very finely serrate apically, length 0.13-0.14 mm, width 0.02 mm.

Male terminalia: Lateral surstylus very short, barely extended beyond prensisetae. Phallus extremely short, less than 0.30 mm long; glans absent.