Drosophila sordidapex Grimshaw

Lapoint, Richard T., Magnacca, Karl N. & O’Grady, Patrick M., 2009, Review of the spoon tarsus subgroup of Hawaiian Drosophila (Drosophilidae: Diptera), with a description of one new species, Zootaxa 2003, pp. 53-68 : 65

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6212488

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Drosophila sordidapex Grimshaw
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Drosophila sordidapex Grimshaw View in CoL

Figure 3 View FIGURE 3 b

Drosophila sordidapex Grimshaw, 1901: 63 View in CoL

Diagnosis. The palpi and mouthparts are light brown. The thorax is yellow to light brown and the legs are completely yellow. The wing posseses a distinct marking that completely darkens the apical half of cell R2+3, the posterior apical margin of cell R1 and anterior apical margin of cell R4+5. Unlike other species, this spot is much darker and is not diffuse, with defined margins (see Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 b), although in some specimens (including the holotype), it may be distinctly following the veins with a small clear area in the middle of cell R2+3. The abdomen is dark brown to black dorsally with yellow sides except for the completely yellow last tergite.

Types. HAWAI‘I: Holotype ɗ (BMNH) Ōla‘a Forest, vii. 1895. [probably collected by R. C. L. Perkins].

Material Examined. HAWAI‘I: 11 ɗ have been deposited in the BPBM from the following localities: ɗ, Stainback Highway, Tom's Trail, 3200', x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; 4 ɗ, Kahuku, Pu‘u Akihi Gulch, i.2006, KNM; ɗ, HAVO escape road, 3900’, vi.2006, KNM; ɗ, Hionamoa Stream, Ka‘ū Forest, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; ɗ, Ōla‘a Forest, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; ɗ, Kukuiopa‘e, South Kona Forest Reserve, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; 2 ɗ, Laupāhoehoe, 3700', x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB. Over 50 ɗ have been deposited in the UHIM from the following localities: 23 ɗ, Keanakolu, x.1952, DEH; 13 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a Forest, viii.1952, DEH; 5 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a Forest, viii.1953, DEH; 5 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a Forest, vii.1963, WBH; 3 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a Forest, vii.1964, LHT; 7 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a Forest, vii.1956 DEH; 4 ɗ, Pu‘u Hualalai, vi.1966, WBH; 3 ɗ, Kaiholeua, Kohala Mountains, viii.1952, DEH; ɗ, Forest above Pa‘auilo, vii.1953, DEH; ɗ, Keauhou Ranch, Kīlauea, vii.1953, DEH; ɗ, Honaunau Forest, vii.1966 KYK. The following material is present at AMNH: ɗ, Neuneu Road, Kaloko Mauka, North Kona, O38.6, 3.vii.1998, PMO, SLM; 5 ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, near Pole 44, O117.4, 23.ii.2001, PMO; 2 ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, transect 16, O120.2, 25.ii.2001, PMO, DF; ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, near Pole 44, O132.8, AMCC 105696, 2.viIi.2001, PMO, CDS; 5 ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, near Pole 44, O140.8, AMCC 105684, 12.iv.2002, PMO, CDS. The following material is in the Essig Museum of Entomology at UC Berkeley: ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, near pole 48, O247.H; O201459; 6–7.vii.2004, PMO, MG, CDS.

Distribution. This species is endemic to the Big Island of Hawai‘i.

Behavior: Speith (1966: 274).

Ecology. This species has been reared from leaves of Cheirodendron trigynum (Araliaceae) ; leaves of Ilex anomala (Aquifoliaceae) ( Heed 1968).

Illustrations. Morphological structures of this species are depicted in multiple publications including: foreleg ( Hardy 1965: 470, fig. 190a); phallus ( Kaneshiro 1976: 267, fig. 5b); terminalia, male, lateral ( Hardy 1965: 470, fig. 190c); wing ( Hardy 1965: 470, fig. 190b).

BPBM

Bishop Museum

HAVO

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

AMCC

Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection, American Museum of Natural History

CDS

Charles Darwin Research Station

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Drosophilidae

Genus

Drosophila

Loc

Drosophila sordidapex Grimshaw

Lapoint, Richard T., Magnacca, Karl N. & O’Grady, Patrick M. 2009
2009
Loc

Drosophila sordidapex

Grimshaw 1901: 63
1901
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