Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 July 2009
Closely allied to Ceratitis, MacLeay, and agreeing therewith in thoracic chætotaxy† and, venation : differing in general facies of body, in shape of scutellum, and in that of ovipositor, the first segment of which, instead of being flattened and truncate triangular in shape, is thickened and tubular, resembling that of Urophora.
page 71 note * καρπο-φθóρος, spoiling fruit ; μυι̑α, a fly.
page 71 note † for diagram of thoracic chétotaxy in Ceratitis, see Bezzi, , Boll. del Lab. di Zool. gen. e agr. della R. Scuola Sup. d'Agric. in Portici, vol. iii. 1909, p. 275, fig. 1.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
page 72 note * For names and illustrations of colours, see Ridgway, ‘ A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists ’ (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1886).CrossRefGoogle Scholar