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Specimen 2930: 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: #2930
Scientific name: Ceratitis punctata (Wiedemann)
Host plant: Apocynaceae / Landolphia sp. (None)
Country: Nigeria
Locality: Olokemeji
Coordinates 3°31'60" E / 7°25'0" 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: from 6-5-1936 to 17-5-1936
Collector: Van Zwaluwenburg & McGough
Type of association with host plant: Reared from
Number of specimens 4 (3 male(s), 1 female(s), 0 unsexed)
Remarks: 'sp 112'. ID not fully certain (aculeus shortish). Apparently mixed with semipunctata (cf record 4099)

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