Clusiosomina

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title: "Clusiosomina" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["phytalmiinae", "tephritidae-genera"] description: "Species of fruit fly in Australia" topic_path: "general/phytalmiinae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusiosomina" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Species of fruit fly in Australia ::

| image = Clusiosomina puncticeps.jpg | image_caption = Clusiosomina puncticeps | taxon = Clusiosomina | authority = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Clusiosomina is a genus of tephritid fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. Occurring in eastern Australia, it is a monotypic taxon with the single species Clusiosomina puncticeps.

Description

In adults of C. puncticeps, the face, scutum and abdomen are all yellow. The face has a pair of brown lateral spots ventrally. The scutum has a pair of submedial brown stripes that extend onto the scutellum laterally. There is also a lateral stripe extending from each postpronotal lobe to each wing base. The abdomen has broad brown lateral margins. The wings are mostly brown except for the basomedial portions, which are subhyaline (partly transparent). In males, the foretibia has two preapical setae and the fore basitarsus has an apically spinulose anteroventral process.

Males are 4.5-4.7 mm long with wing length 4.0-4.2 mm, while females are 5.0-5.3 mm long with wing length 4.4-4.7 mm.

Ecology

Larvae of C. puncticeps feed in fig fruits (Ficus), like some other species in the Clusiosoma subgroup.

Gallery

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References

References

1. "Clusiosomina - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
2. "Clusiosomina puncticeps (Malloch, 1939)".
3. (1995). "Australian Trypetinae (Diptera : Tephritidae)". Invertebrate Systematics.
4. Hancock, David L.. (2015-09-01). "A review of the tree, fig and fruit-infesting flies of the 'Aethiothemara', 'Diarrhegma', 'Dirioxa' and 'Themaroides' groups of genera (Diptera: Tephritidae: Acanthonevrini)". Australian Entomologist.

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