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Specimen 2925: Ceratitis sp. None

Taxonomy

Status: not described

Current Taxonomy
Subfamily Dacinae
 Tribe Ceratitidini
  Genus Ceratitis
   Species sp.
Original Taxonomy
Species sp.

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Additionnal informations

Collection number: #2925
Scientific name: Ceratitis sp. None
Host plant: Apocynaceae / Tabernaemontana longiflora (None)
Country: Sierra Leone
Locality: Njala
Coordinates 11°34'59.99" W / 8°2'0" N
Collection: USNM: United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., USA
Lure: N/A
Reliability: A: reared material, fly ID confirmed
Collecting date: 12-1935
Collector: Van Zwaluwenburg & McGough
Type of association with host plant: Reared from
Number of specimens 10 (8 male(s), 2 female(s), 0 unsexed)
Remarks: 'ex Conopharyngia longiflora'; probably SL11 series referred to in literature. Poor condition, aculeus looks like semipunctata.

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