A New Species Of Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) From The Inflorescences Of Xanthosoma Sagittifolium (Araceae)
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REVISTA ECUATORIANA DE MEDICINA Y CIENCIAS BIOLÓGICAS (REMCB)
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2017-09-11
In Ecuador, most collections of Drosophila use fruit-baited traps to study fruit flies, and for this reason little is known about the ecology of flower-breeding and feeding Drosophila species. However, some Ecuadorian species from the followings species groups: Drosophila flavopilosa Frey, 1919, Drosophila bromeliae Sturtevant, 1921, Drosophila onychophora Vilela & Bächli, 1990 and Drosophila morelia Vilela, 2004 have been found living in flowers of the botanical families Solanaceae, Bromeliaceae and Asteraceae (Silva and Martins 2004, Vilela and Bachli 2004, Figuero and Rafael 2011, Figuero et al. 2012, Robe et al.2014).