cardini Sturtevant (M. Parchami-Araghi pers. comm.).
Drosophila cardini Sturtevant, 1916: 336 .
Distribution. Introduced. Afrotropical, Neotropical, Oriental; Galápagos: Santa Cruz.
Remarks. Adults of this species were recently reared from passionfruit in the Scalesia zone (Los Gemelos), oranges in the littoral zone, and from freshly collected Galápagos tomatoes in the highlands on Santa Cruz (Lehnen et al. unpubl.).