| General Characteristics: Interior fruit
feeder, length 14 – 18 mm; head color brownish yellow; head width 1.62;
dark speckling on the thoracic shield (Fig.1);
anal comb lacking (Fig 2).
Head: Hypognathus (Fig.
1).; adfrontal reaching or nearly reaching epicranial notch; epicranial
suture usually short; six stemmatae, usually unevenly distributted with
6 always close to 4 than 5 (Fig. 1).
Thorax: With distal medial sulus; T1 with
trisetose L group (Fig. 1); T2 and T3 with
SV group bisetose (Fig. 1); L1 closer to L2
than L3 (Fig. 1).
Abdomen: L group setae adjacent to each other and obliquely placed (Fig. 3 & Fig. 4); A3 with L1 and L2 closer to each other than either is to spiracles; spiracles broadly elliptical, with eight pair usually some what larger and more dorsad; prolegs on A3-6 and A10, uniordinal crochets in complete circle on A3-6 prolegs (Figure); A10 prolegs with crochets in continuous row (Fig. 4); Anal Comb lacking (Fig 2). |
