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Anastrepha katiyari Norrbom

Wing.

Recognition
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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.

Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Genus: Anastrepha. Species: katiyari. 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. Anastrepha katiyari has been placed in the daciformis species group. Norrbom (1998) analyzed the relationships among the species of the daciformis group (see Phylogeny of the Anastrepha daciformis group) and included A. katiyari in the daciformis complex along with A. castanea Norrbom and daciformis Bezzi.

Names Used for this Species
Anastrepha katiyari Norrbom 1998: 182.
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Type data
Holotype - Female (IZAM) (USNM48665), VENEZUELA: Zulia: Mara, 10°49'00"N 70°52'18"W, 60 m., ex. fruto del caimito Sideroxylon obtusifolium MFAKP-1062, 25 Oct 1995, K. Katiyar, J. Camacho, J. Oroño.

Distribution
Anastrepha katiyari is known only from western Venezuela (Merida, Zulia).
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Biology
The biology of Anastrepha katiyari is poorly known.  It has been reared from fruits of caimito, Sideroxylon obtusifolium (Roem. & Schult.) T.D. Penn. (Sapotaceae), its only known host plant.  The larvae feed in the seed within the fruit (Norrbom et al. 1999).

Economic Significance
Anastrepha katiyari is not considered a pest species.

Comments
This species was named for Prof. Katma P. Katiyar, Universidad de Zulia, who headed the survey in which most of the type series was reared.

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. 1998. A revision of the Anastrepha daciformis species group (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 100: 160-192. [p. 182, description]
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]