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Specimen 2659: Ceratitis punctata (Wiedemann)

Taxonomy

Status: valid

Current Taxonomy
Subfamily Dacinae
 Tribe Ceratitidini
  Genus Ceratitis
   Species punctata
Original Taxonomy
Genus Tephritis
 Species punctata

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Additionnal informations

Collection number: #2659
Scientific name: Ceratitis punctata (Wiedemann)
Host plant: N/A / (Unknown) (None)
Country: South Africa
Locality: Eshowe
Coordinates 31°28'0.01" E / 28°52'59.99" S
Collection: BMNH: Natural History Museum, London, UK
Lure: N/A
Reliability: G: no host data, fly ID considered questionable
Collecting date: 6-1926
Collector: Turner, R.E.
Type of association with host plant: N/A
Number of specimens 1 (1 male(s), 0 female(s), 0 unsexed)
Remarks: ID not certain: face and frons deformed. Face much more yellow than usual. Identified as punctata by Munro, and Cogan.

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