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Help ID this fruit fly. Looks like pumpkin fruitfly but the pattern on the rear is different (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/askbiologists@lemmy.world
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I have many pictures of two specimen (presumably a male and female)

The one with bent wing has this appendix which I think uses to penetrate my luffa fruit skin and lay its eggs or maybe that's the male's organ

Location: Indonesia

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[โ€“] [S] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

To me they look very different:

  1. The wasp in your picture has a very thin and long waist. in my picture its shorter and thicker.
  2. wasp's waist is thinner toward the thorax and wider toward abdomen, mine is opposite
  3. pattern on the abdomen doesn't match.
  4. this insect lay eggs in my luffa plant that grow into maggots, wasps don't have maggots in their life cycle.

There is already a fruitfly species that is very similar to my photos called pumpkin fruitfly but it's not an exact match

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