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Anastrepha pseudanomala Norrbom

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Recognition
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Anastrepha pseudanomala is one of the species of the serpentina group with a hyaline area in cell br posterior to the pterostigma that is not extended to vein R4+5. Of the other species with this character, A. pseudanomala is most likely to be confused with A. normalis Norrbom or A. anomala Stone. It differs from both species in having a slightly longer aculeus tip (more than 0.35 mm long) that is broader than in A. anomala (0.15 mm vs. no more than 0.12 mm), and more than half serrate, unlike in A. normalis. The orbital plate sometimes has a triangular brown mark that does not occur in the other two species. Anastrepha pseudanomala further differs from A. normalis in having the middle section of the S-band solidly dark brown anterior and distal to crossvein R-M.

Classification and Evolutionary Relationships
Order: Diptera. Family: Tephritidae. Genus: Anastrepha. Species: pseudanomala. 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 pseudanomala has been placed in the serpentina species group. Norrbom (2002) analyzed the relationships among the species of the serpentina group (see Phylogeny of the Anastrepha serpentina group), and considered A. pseudanomala to be most closely related to one or more of the following: A. anomala Stone, A. ocresia (Walker), the serpentina clade (A. serpentina (Wiedemann) + A. pulchella Norrbom + A. pulchra Stone + A. anomoiae Norrbom), and/or A. ornata Aldrich.

Names Used for this Species
Anastrepha pseudanomala Norrbom 2002: 415.
Anastrepha anomala: Stone 1942: 29 [in part].
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Type Data
Holotype - Female (National Museum of Natural History (USNM), USNM00052961), PANAMA: Panamá: El Cermeño [8°44'N 79°51'W], 10 Oct 1939, J. Zetek 4559, paratype A. anomala.

Distribution
Anastrepha pseudanomala is known from Costa Rica and Panama.
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Biology
The biology of Anastrepha pseudanomala is poorly known.  Its host plants are unknown.

Economic Significance
Anastrepha pseudanomala is not considered a pest species.

Comments
The name of this species is based on its similarity to A. anomala.

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. 2002. A revision of the Anastrepha serpentina species group (Diptera: Tephritidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 104: 390-436. [p. 415, 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]
Stone, A. 1942. The fruitflies of the genus Anastrepha. U. S. Dept. Agric. Misc. Publ. No. 439, 112 pp.