Subgenus Sinodacus Zia Sinodacus Zia, 1936: 157. Type species Sinodacus hochii Zia, 1936, by original designation. Diagnosis. Posterior lobe of susrtylus long, abdominal sternite V of male slightly concave on posterior margin, pecten present on abdominal tergite III of male, postpronotal lobe with seta absent, postsutural supra-alar seta present, prescutellar acrostichal seta absent, one pair of scutellar setae present, medial postsutural vittta present. This subgenus is recorded for the first time from India and a new species is described.

Published as part of David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Singh, Shakti Kumar, Ramani, S., Behere, G. T. & Salini, S., 2017, New species, new records and updated subgeneric key of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) from India, pp. 386-400 in Zootaxa 4272 (3) on page 397, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/892498