A revision of the Anastrepha robusta species group (Diptera: Tephritidae)

The Anastrepha robusta species group is revised to include the following 29 species: A. amaryllis Tigrero (Ecuador), A. amazonensis, n. sp. (Brazil: Amazonas), A. bella, n. sp. (Panama), A. binodosa Stone (Brazil: Amazonas, Para), A. concava Greene (Costa Rica to Ecuador and Brazil: Amazonia), A. cordata Aldrich (Mexico to Venezuela), A. cryptostrepha Hendel (Peru, Surinam), A. cryptostrephoides, n. sp. (Peru), A. disticrux, n. sp. (Jamaica), A. fenestrata Lutz & Lima (Brazil: Amazonas, Para), A. fenestrella, n. sp. (Costa Rica, Panama), A. furcata Lima (Panama, French Guiana, Brazil: Amazonas, Para, Bahia, Espirito Santo), A. fuscata, n. sp. (Peru), A. isolata, n. sp. (Ecuador, Brazil: Amazonas), A. jamaicensis, n. sp. (Jamaica), A. lambda Hendel (Per), A. miza, n. sp. (Venezuela), A. nigra, n. sp. (Panama), A. nigrifascia Stone (Bahamas, USA: Florida), A. nigrivittata, n. sp. (Guyana), A. partita, n. sp. ("Amazon"), A. phaeoptera Lima (Brazil: Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul), A. pittieri Caraballo (Panama, Venezuela), A. pseudorobusta, n. sp. (Per, Trinidad, Venezuela), A. rafaeli, n. sp. (Brazil: Roraima, Venezuela), A. robusta Greene (Mexico to Panama), A. rojasi, n. sp. (Costa Rica, Panama), A. simulans Zucchi (Brazil: Parana, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), and A. speciosa Stone (Panama). Moutabea longifolia is recorded as a host plant of A. rojasi, the first host record for Anastrepha species from the plant family Polygalaceae. The larvae feed on the seeds within the fruit. A key to the species and descriptions and illustrations for each species are provided, and their possible relationships are discussed.