Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis (Hendel) Musca ferruginea Fabricius, 1794: 342. Preoccupied by Musca ferruginea Scopoli, 1763 Dacus ferrugineus Fabricius, 1805: 274. Dacus dorsalis Hendel, 1912: 18 Bactrocera ferruginea Bezzi, 1913: 95. Chaetodacus ferrugineus var. dorsalis Hendel, 1915: 426. Chaetodacus ferrugineus Bezzi, 1916: 104. Chaetodacus ferrugineus dorsalis Bezzi, 1916: 104. Chaetodacus ferrugineus var. okinawanus Shiraki, 1933: 62 (synonymised by Hardy, 1969: 402.) Dacus (Strumeta) dorsalis (in Hardy & Adachi, 1956). Strumeta dorsalis (in Hering, 1956: 63). Strumeta ferruginea Hering, 1956: 63 Strumeta dorsalis okinawana Shiraki, 1968: 23. Dacus (Bactrocera) dorsalis Hardy, 1977: 49. Dacus (Bactrocera) semifemoralis Tseng, Chen & Chu, 1992: 46. (synonymised by Drew & Romig, 2013: 76) Dacus (Bactrocera) yilanensis Tseng, Chen & Chu, 1992, 52. (synonymised by Drew & Romig, 2013: 76) Bactrocera (Bactrocera) dorsalis Drew & Hancock, 1994: 17. Bactrocera (Bactrocera) variabilis Lin & Wang, in Lin et al., 2011b: 896. (synonymised by Drew & Romig, 2013: 76). Bactrocera (Bactrocera) invadens Drew, Tsuruta & White, 2005: 149.(synonymised by Schutze et al., 2014) Bactrocera (Bactrocera) papayae Drew & Hancock, 1994: 48 (synonymised by Schutze et al., 2014). Bactrocera (Bactrocera) philippinensis Drew & Hancock, 1994: 52 (synonymised by Schutze et al., 2014) Material examined: 1♂, INDIA, Andhra Pradesh, Thirupati, 22.v.2015, Pampapathi, 9♂♂, INDIA: Karnataka, Bangalore, Ramagiri, August 2014, Raghavendra, A; 2♂♂, INDIA, Karnataka, Bangalore, Attur, 10.xi. 2014, Prabhu, G; 1♂, same data except Hebbal, 22.ii.2013, Prabhu, G. 1♀, INDIA, Karnataka, Bangalore, Attur, 0 2. iv. 2014, Prabhu, G; 1♀, INDIA, Karnataka, Bangalore, IIHR, Hessaraghatta, 12.v.2010, Rajeswari. (NBAIR). Diagnosis: Male with epandrium and surstyli oval in outline (posterior view) (Fig. 5G). Lateral surstylus shorter than epandrium; posterior lobe of surstylus not longer than anterior lobe (Fig. 3G). Proctiger quadrate and smaller than epandrium (Fig. 3G). Medial surstylus longer than lateral surstylus, tapering towards apex with a pair of thick prensisetae. Phallus 1.80 mm long, excluding glans (0.42 mm); 0.75 of glans sclerotised with unpatterned praeputium; subapical lobe and basal lobe present (Fig. 8G). Female with reddish brown, dorsoventrally flattened, oviscape (1.4 mm); eversible membrane (1.70 mm) with spicules on distal end, broader than high, with11-12 small pointed projections (Fig. 11E); aculeus (1.5 mm) with acute apex and four pairs of preapical setae (Fig. 13E); two black, convoluted, mulberry shaped spermathecae (Fig. 15F).

Published as part of David, K. J. & Ramani, S., 2019, New species, redescriptions and phylogenetic revision of tribe Dacini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae) from India based on morphological characters, pp. 101-146 in Zootaxa 4551 (2) on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2622635