New species and host plants of Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae) primarily from Suriname and Pará, Brazil

Abstract

Seventeen new species of Anastrepha, primarily from Suriname, French Guiana and Pará, Brazil, are described and illustrated: A. aithogaster Norrbom from Brazil (Pará), French Guiana, and Suriname; A. aliesae Norrbom from Suriname; A. brownsbergiensis Norrbom from Suriname; A. crassaculeus Norrbom & Rodriguez Clavijo from Colombia (Magdalena, Norte de Santander) and Suriname; A. curvivenis Norrbom from Brazil (Amazonas), Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (San Martín), and Suriname; A. fuscoalata Norrbom from Brazil (Pará), French Guiana, and Suriname; A. gangadini Norrbom from Suriname; A. juxtalanceola Norrbom from Brazil (Pará) and Suriname; A. microstrepha Norrbom from Brazil (Bahia) and Suriname; A. mitaraka Norrbom from French Guiana; A. neptis Norrbom from Brazil (Pará), Ecuador (Orellana), Peru (Loreto) and Suriname; A. sobrina Norrbom from Brazil (Pará), French Guiana, and Suriname; A. surinamensis Norrbom from Suriname; A. tenebrosa Norrbom from Brazil (Pará) and Peru (Loreto); A. triangularis Norrbom from Suriname; A. wachiperi Norrbom from French Guiana and Peru (Cusco); and A. wittiensis Norrbom from Suriname. The following host plant records are reported: A. aithogaster from fruit of Parahancornia fasciculata (Poir.) Benoist (Apocynaceae); A. aliesae from fruit of Passiflora coccinea Aubl. and P. glandulosa Cav. (Passifloraceae); A. crassaculeus from fruit of an undetermined species of Pouteria (Sapotaceae); A. fuscoalata from fruit of Trymatococcus oligandrus (Benoist) Lanj. (Moraceae); A. sobrina from fruit of Eugenia lambertiana DC. (Myrtaceae); and A. wittiensis from fruit of Manilkara bidentata (A. DC.) A. Chev. (Sapotaceae).

New Host Plant and Distribution Records of Anastrepha Species (Diptera: Tephritidae) Primarily from the Western Amazon

“…Distribution.— Anastrepha aithogaster is known from Brazil (Pará), French Guiana, and Suriname (Norrbom et al 2021).…”

“…The genus Anastrepha is restricted to the New World, comprising 328 currently recognized species that are classified into 33 species groups (Mengual et al 2017;Norrbom et al , 2015Norrbom et al , 2018Norrbom et al , 2021Troya et al 2020;Rodriguez Clavijo and Norrbom 2021); we follow the species group classification being used in a forthcoming manuscript analyzing an extensive dataset of Anastrepha COI barcodes (M. R. Moore, A. L. Norrbom, et al, unpubl.). Among these species are at least a dozen major economic pests, some of which are highly polyphagous (e.g., Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Mexican fruit fly), Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) (West Indian fruit fly), Anastrepha ser pentina (Wiedemann) (sapote fruit fly), Anastrepha striata Schiner (guava fruit fly), Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) (Caribbean fruit fly), and Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) sensu lato (South American fruit fly complex), plus about 40 other minor species that attack a wide array of edible fruits (Norrbom 2004, Steck et al 2019.…”

“…We provide new host plant and distribution records and document the damage to the fruits and provide photographs to support accuracy in the identification of both larvae and adults of 31 species belonging to the following Anastrepha species groups: adami, annonae, buscki, caudata, curvi cauda, fraterculus, grandis, leptozona, mucronota, pseudoparalella, ramosa, serpentina, speciosa, and striata, as well as several species unassigned to a group. We supply additional biological data for some of these records previously published by Norrbom et al (2015Norrbom et al ( , 2021 with limited detail. Finally, we provide a synopsis of native host plants by Anastrepha species group to compare their range of host plant families and genera.…”

Exceptional larval morphology of nine species of the Anastrepha mucronota species group (Diptera, Tephritidae)

“…Anastrepha Schiner is the most species-rich and economically important genus of fruit flies in the American tropics and subtropics, comprising 328 described species to date (Norrbom et al , 2015(Norrbom et al , 2018(Norrbom et al , 2021Rodríguez Clavijo and Norrbom 2021), for which third instars of only 29 species (~ 9%) have been described . Some Anastrepha species are well known major economic pests, including Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) sensu lato (South American fruit fly complex), Anastrepha ludens (Loew) (Mexican fruit fly), Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) (West Indian fruit fly), Anastrepha serpentina (Wiedemann) (sapote fruit fly), Anastrepha striata Schiner (guava fruit fly), and Anastrepha suspensa (Loew) (Caribbean fruit fly).…”

Aggregation and spatio-temporal dynamics of fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae) in papaya orchards associated with different area delimitations in Brazil

“…The main tephritid species distributed across the Neotropical Region include two taxonomic groups, Anastrepha, which comprises 328 species native to the Americas (Norrbom et al, 2021) and occurs in all regions of Brazil (Zucchi & Moraes, 2021a), and Ceratitis capitata, a species with worldwide distribution (Vera, Rodriguez, Segura, Cladera, & Sutherst, 2002), and widely distributed in Brazil (Zucchi & Moraes, 2021b). The genus Anastrepha is distributed from a latitude of 35ºN to 35ºS, in different environments, from the sea level to an altitude of 3,000 m or more.…”