The Drosophila funebris species group in North America (Diptera: Drosophilidae) (American Museum novitates, no. 3988)
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2022-04-07
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American Museum of Natural History.
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Abstract
Although the global human commensal Drosophila funebris (Fabricius) is well known
and is the type species of the genus Drosophila Fallén, the four native North American
species of the funebris group have been poorly defined morphologically. D. macrospina
limpiensis Patterson and Wheeler is newly recognized as a species distinct from D. macrospina, with diagnostic morphological characters provided. The subspecies D. macrospina
ohioensis Stalker is synonymized under D. macrospina. Species native to the Palearctic and
to the Nearctic are morphologically distinct, each probably a monophyletic group. Detailed
descriptions and redescriptions are provided for both sexes of D. macrospina Stalker and
Spencer, D. limpiensis Patterson and Wheeler, D. subfunebris Stalker and Spencer, and D.
trispina Wheeler, the latter two being very rare species from southern California. Neotypes
are designated for D. macrospina and D. subfunebris. A key to the five Nearctic species of
the funebris group is provided.
Description
25 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
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Keywords
Drosophila -- North America -- Classification., Fruit-flies -- Classification., Fruit-flies -- Morphology., Insects -- Classification., Insects -- Morphology.