Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
Features include:
- face fulvous with a pair of large oval black spots
- scutum black except sometimes brown below and behind lateral postsutural vittae, around mesonotal suture, inside postpronotal lobes, around prsc. setae and on anterocentral margin
- postpronotal lobes yellow (anteromedial corners red-brown)
- notopleura yellow
- mesopleural stripe slightly wider than notopleuron dorsally
- narrow parallel sided lateral postsutural vittae ending at ia. seta
- medial postsutural vitta absent
- scutellum yellow with a moderately broad black basal band
- legs with femora fulvous with dark fuscous on outer apical 2/3 of fore femora, inner apical 1/2 of mid and inner apical 1/3 of hind femora, fore tibiae fuscous, mid tibiae fulvous and hind tibiae dark fuscous
- wings with cells bc and c colourless, microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, a narrow fuscous costal band confluent with R2+3 and remaining narrow around margin of wing to end between extremities of R4+5 and M, a narrow fuscous cubital streak
- supernumerary lobe of medium development
- abdominal terga III-V orange-brown with a narrow transverse black band across anterior margin of tergum III but not covering lateral margins, a very narrow medial longitudinal fuscous to dark fuscous band over all three terga (occasionally interrupted at intersegmental lines) and very narrow fuscous to dark fuscous anterolateral corners on terga IV and V, a pair of oval orange-brown shining spots on tergum V
- abdominal sterna dark coloured
- posterior lobe of male surstylus short
- female with aculeus tip needle shaped (Drew and Romig 2013).
Morphological – larvae
Information not available.
Molecular
DNA barcoding
BOLD reference data available.
Diagnostic to the level of the B. dorsalis species complex, but difficult to resolve amongst several other species within the complex. See Diagnostic methods used to identify fruit flies.
COI data
B. kandiensis 1589 Classic morphology Folmers COI
B. kandiensis 1590 Abdomen variation Folmers COI
B. kandiensis KAN001 Classic morphology Folmers COI
B. kandiensis KAN002 Abdomen/Scutum variation Folmers COI
B. kandiensis KAN003 Scutum variation Folmers COI
DDOSTs2 data
B. kandiensis 1589 Classic morphology DDOSTs2
B. kandiensis 1590 Abdomen variation DDOSTs2
B. kandiensis KAN001 Classic morphology DDOSTs2
B. kandiensis KAN002 Abdomen/Scutum variation DDOSTs2
EIF3L data
B. kandiensis KAN001 Classic specimen EIF3L
B. kandiensis KAN002 Abdomen/Scutum variation EIF3L
B. kandiensis KAN003 Scutum variation EIF3L
POP4 data
B. kandiensis 1589 Classic morphology POP4
B. kandiensis 1590 Abdomen variation POP4
B. kandiensis KAN001 Classic specimen POP4
B. kandiensis KAN002 Abdomen/Scutum variation POP4
RPA2 data
B. kandiensis 1589 Classic morphology RPA2
B. kandiensis 1590 Abdomen variation RPA2
B. kandiensis KAN001 Classic morphology RPA2
B. kandiensis KAN002 Abdomen/Scutum variation RPA2
PCR-RFLP Test 1
BsrI: Data not available
HinfI: Data not available
HhaI: Data not available
Sau3AI: Data not available
SnaBI: Data not available
SspI: Data not available
Vspl: Data not available
PCR-RFLP Test 2
Data not available