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Specimen 481: Ceratitis cuthbertsoni (Munro)

Taxonomy

Status: valid

Current Taxonomy
Subfamily Dacinae
 Tribe Ceratitidini
  Genus Ceratitis
   Species cuthbertsoni
Original Taxonomy
Subfamily Dacinae
 Tribe Ceratitidini
  Genus Ceratitis
   Subgenus Pardalaspis
    Species cuthbertsoni

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Additionnal informations

Collection number: #481
Scientific name: Ceratitis cuthbertsoni (Munro)
Host plant: Apocynaceae / Tabernaemontana stapfiana (soccerball fruit)
Country: Zimbabwe
Locality: Mutare (as Umtali)  (Originaly Umtali, Vumba Mts)
Coordinates 32°40'0.01" E / 18°58'0.01" S
Collection: SANC: Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
Lure: N/A
Reliability: A: reared material, fly ID confirmed
Collecting date: 10-1935
Collector: Cuthbertson, A.
Type of association with host plant: Reared from
Number of specimens 1 (0 male(s), 1 female(s), 0 unsexed)
Remarks: 'ex fruit of native M'Tegeti tree (possibly C. stapfiana), in Kloof forest.'Nr 4250. Lectotype designation by De Meyer (1996)

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