Scaptomyza cyrtandrae Hardy, 1965

Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O’Grady, Patrick Michael, 2025, Review of Hawaiian Elmomyza species (Diptera, Drosophilidae, Scaptomyza). I. The cyrtandrae, exigua, and obscuricornis species groups, with the descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 5729 (1), pp. 1-42 : 6

Scaptomyza cyrtandrae Hardy, 1965

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Scaptomyza cyrtandrae Hardy, 1965: 673 .

Diagnosis. Surstylus strongly developed, extending posteriorly and medially, in an L-shape. Eight surstylar teeth are distributed along the distal margin of the surstylus.

Distribution. Hawaiian Islands : Hawaiʻi.

Ecology. This species is associated with leaves of native Cyrtandra spp. ( Gesneriaceae ) as both feeding and breeding sites ( Burgunder et al. 2022).

Types. The holotype male (6519, on pin) and allotype female (6519a, on pin) are deposited in the BPBM. Napau Crater , Hawaiʻi, 2,900 ft [ 884 m], Jul 1956, D. E. Hardy .

Figures

FIGURE 2. Habitus of Scaptomyza cyrtandrae Hardy, 1965 in dorsal (A) and left lateral (B) views. Scale bar = 1 mm. Male terminalia in posterior (C), oblique posterior (D) and left lateral (E) views. Disarticulated phallic sclerites in posterior (F), oblique posterior (G), left lateral (H) oblique anterior (I), and anterior (J) views. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. Modified from Burgunder et al., 2022.