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Anastrepha hermosa Norrbom

Recognition
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Anastrepha hermosa belongs to the schausi species group, which differs from other species of Anastrepha in having minute spines on the glans of the male, the facial carina weak, the lateral surstylus acute, its lateral margin usually slightly concave, and the male face and/or abdomen with white or brown markings. Anastrepha hermosa differs from all other species of Anastrepha except A. fernandezi and A. schausi by the shape of the face, particularly its angulate lower margin. It differs from both of these species in having narrower nonmicrotrichose stripes on the scutum and in male facial and abdominal color patterns. The male of A. hermosa has a white band along the ventral margin of the face, whereas A. fernandezi has only a white spot on the facial ridge and A. schausi has broad black and white bands. The medial white stripe on the male abdomen is shorter than in A. fernandezi and the dark brown abdominal markings are absent in A. schausi. The abdominal microtrichia pattern is also a useful diagnostic character. The female (so far unknown) probably has the face similarly shaped as the male, or at least with the carina weak. Estimating from the length of the phallus, the female oviscape is probably about 4.5 mm long. Anastrepha scobinae Stone, hastata Stone, and tubifera (Walker), which are known only from females, have wing patterns similar to hermosa and terminalia of corresponding length, but they all have well developed facial carinae and are doubtfully conspecific. A. tubifera also has vein M much more strongly curved apically, and it and A. hastata also have the scutum entirely microtrichose.

Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Genus: Anastrepha. Species: hermosa. Author: Norrbom.
Relationships among the species of Anastrepha were analyzed by Norrbom et al. (1999) and McPheron et al. (1999). Click here for more detailed discussion of Anastrepha phylogeny. A. hermosa has been placed in the schausi species group, which includes three other species.

Names Used for this Species
Anastrepha hermosa Norrbom in Norrbom & Kim 1988: 170.
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Type Data
Holotype - Male (SMTD), PERU: Pichis, Pto. Yessup [Yesup], Dec 1903. The type locality is probably the site on the Rio Pinchis in eastern Departamento Pasco in central Peru.

Distribution
Anastrepha hermosa is known from Peru and Bolivia.
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Biology
The host plants and biology of this species are unknown.

Economic Significance
Anastrepha hermosa is not considered a pest species.

References
Key references are listed below. See fruit fly literature database for additional references.
McPheron, B. A., H.-Y. Han, J. G. Silva & A. L. Norrbom. 1999. Phylogeny of the genera Anastrepha and Toxotrypana (Trypetinae: Toxotrypanini) based upon 16S rRNA mitochondrial DNA sequences, p. 343-361. In M. Aluja & A. L. Norrbom, eds., Fruit flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and evolution of behavior. CRC Press, Boca Raton. [16] + 944 p. [phylogeny]
Norrbom, A. L. & K. C. Kim. 1988. Revision of the schausi group of Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae), with a discussion of the terminology of the female terminalia in the Tephritoidea. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 81: 164-173.
Norrbom, A. L., R. A. Zucchi & V. Hernández-Ortiz. 1999. Phylogeny of the genera Anastrepha and Toxotrypana (Trypetinae: Toxotrypanini) based on morphology, p. 299-342. In M. Aluja & A. L. Norrbom, eds., Fruit flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and evolution of behavior. CRC Press, Boca Raton. [16] + 944 p. [classification & phylogeny]