A new species of Dacus Fabricius (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) from northern Himalayas Author Singh, Maneesh Pal College of Horticulture and Forestry, Neri, Hamirpur Himachal Pradesh, India Author Sharma, Sneha Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI-NIBSM), Chhattisgarh, India Author Hancock, David Lawrence College of Horticulture and Forestry, Neri, Hamirpur Himachal Pradesh, India & 14 Yew Tree Court, Carlisle, Cumbria CA 2 5 QA, United Kingdom & College of Horticulture and Forestry, Neri, Hamirpur Himachal Pradesh, India text Zootaxa 2025 2025-10-09 5706 1 66 78 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5706.1.4 journal article 312678 10.11646/zootaxa.5706.1.4 a0e4b463-20c8-4aa7-871d-e83d47410f05 1175-5326 17327103 251E85FF-AC46-4258-A5DF-50B743AD6265

TABLE 1. Comparison of characters of species of subgenus Neodacus from India.

Characters	D. shaeroidalis	D. kapoori sp. nov.	Dacus sp.
Facial spots	Elongate spots, but not	Elongate spots, not reaching	Elongate spots, narrowing
	reaching apically to base	apically to base of antennal	apically and reaching base of
	of antennal suture and not	suture but connected by	antennal suture
	connected apically below	narrow line apically below
	antennal suture	antennal suture
Scutum	Reddish brown	Dark brown	Reddish brown
Postpronotal lobe	Yellow with brownish patch	Dark brown with blackish	Yellow with brownish patch
		patch
Katatergite & Anatergite	Yellow with base dark	Yellow with base light	Entirely yellow
	brownish	blackish
Legs	Fulvous	Dark brown	Fulvous
Apical spot on wing of male	Rounded with narrow	Rounded with broad hyaline	Rounded with narrow
	hyaline indentation in cell	indentation in cell r4+5 and	hyaline indentation in cell
	r4+5 and covers apical quarter	covers apical quarter of	r4+5 and apical spot covers
	of cell m	cell m but faint infuscation	apical half of cell m
		covers more than apical half
		of cell m
Band on tergite III	As or less than half width of	Wider than half width of	As or less than half width of
	tergite III	tergite III	tergite III
Band on tergite IV	Absent	Narrow transverse black	Absent
		band
Band on tergite V	Moderately broad black band	Broad black band reaching	Narrow black band not
	not reaching lateral margins	lateral margins and enclosing	reaching lateral margins
		ceromata apically
Spermatheca	Berry bunch like, shorter &	Berry bunch like &	unknown
	triangular shaped (see fig.	elongated
	2C, Hardy, 1973)
Posterior lobe of lateral	Short & tapering	Short & roundish	Longer & tapering
surstylus
Proctiger & Epandrium	Proctiger shorter than half	Proctiger as long as half	Proctiger slightly longer than
ratio	length of epandrium	length of epandrium	half length of epandrium
Glans	Without globosonodii &	With globosonodii & shorter	Without globosonodii &
	shorter vesica	vesica	vesica more than twice
			length of preputium.
Parapheromone	Cuelure	Unknown	Cuelure