Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Drosophila simulans?
Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 00:53
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Hi, is this Drosophila simulans? Gena looks relatively narrow to me, but I'm not sure.
location: Barcelos (Portugal)
date: 09/07/2019
Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 00:54
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 00:54
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 00:54
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 00:55
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mid tibiae
Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 00:55
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 00:56
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Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-07-2019 07:15
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The gena is rather broad (slightly broader than the length of the small setae on the ventral side of the gena) and in my book (Bächli et al, 2004) that makes it
melanogaster.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 12-07-2019 07:16
Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 16:08
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Thank you Paul! I had a look at the very nice pictures in the work in the link below and I see what you mean. From the drawing in Bächli et al. (2004) I thought that in D. melanogaster the gena was broader.
https://www.seman...be9c761910
Posted by Jan Maca on 12-07-2019 16:52
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Author: Miller, M.E., Marshall, S.A., & Grimaldi, D.A.
Year: 2017
Title: A Review of the Species of Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Genera of Drosophilidae of Northeastern North America.
Jabbr: Canad. J. Arthropod Identif. 31:1-282.
deserves recommending as well. For a great part it is based on the thesis Miller 2015, but it enables also the specific determinations of other genera of Drosophilidae.
Posted by Rui Andrade on 12-07-2019 17:07
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Thank you, Jan!