An updated checklist for fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of India with new species and new distribution records
An updated checklist for 335 species of fruit flies of India belonging to 97 genera in 22 tribes and 5 subfamilies is provided. A new species of Oedaspis Loew, O. freidbergi David & Singh, sp. nov. is described along with five new records namely Bactrocera gombokensis Drew & Hancock, Chaetellipsis alternata (Zia), Goniurellia persignata Freidberg, Actinoptera reticulata Ito and Terellia serratulae (Linnaeus).
Authors
- K. SACHIN
- K. J. DAVID (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5092-141X)
- Shakti Kumar Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5314-660X)
- S. RAMANI
Institutions
- Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (IN)
- University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (IN)
- National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (IN)
- Kannur University (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zootaxa
- Published
- 2025-03-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5607.1.1
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.69