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Drosophila malerkotliana Parshad & Paika 1965
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Description
malerkotliana Parshad & Paika (M. Parchami-Araghi pers. comm.).
Drosophila malerkotliana Parshad & Paika, 1965: 235.
Distribution. Introduced. Afrotropical, Neotropical, Oriental; Galápagos: Floreana, Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz.
Remarks. Adults of this species were recently reared from various fruits throughout the main populated islands (Lehnen et al. unpubl.). This species is very similar morphologically to D. ananassae.
Notes
Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 5283 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Parshad & Paika
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Drosophilidae
- Genus
- Drosophila
- Species
- malerkotliana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Drosophila malerkotliana Parshad, 1965 sec. Sinclair, 2023
References
- Parshad, R. & Paika, I. J. (1965) Drosophilid survey of India II. Taxonomy and cytology of the subgenus Sophophora (Drosophila). Research Bulletin of the Panjab Univerisity, Science, New Series, 15 (1964), 225 - 252.