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Drosophila (Sophophora) melanogaster Meigen 1830

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Drosophila (Sophophora) melanogaster Meigen, 1830

Musca cellaris Linnaeus, 1758: 597. Sweden. Nomen Oblitum.

Mosillus cellaris Oken, 1815: 518. Subsequent usage, unavailable.

Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830: 85. Lectotype, male (designated by Rocha Pite & Tsacas 1980: 38). Germany (Schleswig-Holstein: Kiel, Hamburg) and Austria (MNHN).

Drosophila fasciata Meigen, 1830: 84. Germany (Hamburg).

Drosophila nigriventris Macquart, 1843: 416. Vietnam.

Drosophila approximata Zetterstedt, 1847: 2557. Sweden (Småland).

Drosophila immatura Walker, 1849: 1108. Unknown.

Drosophila melanogaster uvarum Rondani, 1875: 145. Italy.

Drosophila pilosula Becker, 1908: 156. Spain (Canary Is.: Teneriffe).

Drosophila emulata Ray-Chaudhuri and Mukherjee, 1941: 216. India (West Bengal: Calcutta).

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Egyptian localities: Distributed in all Egyptian ecological zones.

Dates of collection: Throughout the year.

Notes

Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz & Ebrahim, Ayman M., 2018, Catalogue of the Egyptian Ephydroidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 4444 (3) on page 236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1309626

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References

  • Meigen, J. W. (1830) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Sechster Theil. Schulz- Wundermann, Hamm, 401 pp.
  • Oken, L. (1815) Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, Dritter Theil, Zoologie, Erste Abtheilung Fleischlose Thiere. August Schmid, Jena, 850 pp.
  • Rocha Pite, M. T. & Tsacas, L. (1980) Catalogue of the European species of the genus Drosophila. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciencias Naturais, 19, 37 - 47.
  • Macquart, P. J. M. (1843) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme, 3 e partie. Roret, Paris, 460 pp.
  • Zetterstedt, J. W. (1847) Diptera scandinaviae disposita et descripta. Tomus Sextus. Lundberg, Lund, 418 pp. [pp. 2163 - 2580]
  • Walker, F. (1849) List of the specimens of dipterous insects of the collection of the British Museum. Part 4. British Museum (Natural History), London, 484 pp.
  • Rondani, C. (1875) Notizie sul moscherino dell'uva. Bollettino del Comizio Agrario Parmense, 8, 145 - 149.
  • Becker, T. (1908) Dipteren der Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 4, 1 - 180.