Species Drosophila (Sophophora) pandora McEvey & Schiffer, 2015

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• Drosophila (Sophophora) pandora McEvey, S. F. & Schiffer, M. 2015. New species in the Drosophila ananassae subgroup from Northern Australia, New Guinea and the South Pacific (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with historical overview. Records of the Australian Museum 67(5): 129–161 [138].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K357344/McEvey31861 ♂ adult (ex culture CAQ408), Lake Placid, Queensland [16.870°S 145.676°E].
  Paratype(s) numerous ♂ & ♀ (ex culture CAQ408) deposited at AM, AMNH, ANIC, KIZ, MZB, NSMT, QMBA & USNM, same locality data as holotype.

Introduction

This species has, since the 1970s, been confused in Australia with Drosophila ananassae, see, for example: Bock (1977); Parsons & Bock (1979); Tribe & Bock (1981); McEvey (1982); McEvey & Bock (1982); & Schug et al. (2007). This species has also been recorded as: Drosophila “papuensis-like” by Tomimura et al. (1993) & Matsuda et al. (2009); Drosophila nr ironensis by van Klinken & Walter (2001) [north Queensland & Northern Territory]; & Drosophila nr ananassae by van Klinken et al. (2002) [Northern Territory].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Bock, I.R. 1977. Notes on the Drosophilidae (Diptera) of Townsville, Queensland, including four new Australian species records. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 16(3): 267–272

McEvey, S.F. 1982. Drosophilidae (Insecta: Diptera) of three Torres Strait islands, with description of a new species of Drosophila. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 907-919 [Date published 11/Feb/1982: marked 1981]

McEvey, S.F. & Bock, I.R. 1982. The Drosophilidae (Insecta: Diptera) of the Iron Range, Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 681-709 [12 August]

Parsons, P. A. & Bock, I. R. 1979. The population biology of Australian Drosophila. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 10: 229–245 [230]

Schug, M.D., Smith, S.G., Tozier-Pearce, A. & McEvey, S.F. 2007. The genetic structure of Drosophila ananassae populations from Asia, Australia and the South Pacific. Genetics 175(3): 1429-1440 [Date published March, 2007]

Tomimura, Y., Matsuda, M. & Tobari, Y. N. 1993. Section I. Polytene chromosome variations of Drosophila ananassae and its close relatives. In chapter 9, Population Genetics, by Tomimura, Y., Matsuda, M. Tobari, Y. N., Cariou, M.-L., da Lage, J. L., Stephan, W. & Langley, C. H. pp. 139–198 in Tobari, Y.N. Drosophila ananassae: genetical and biological aspects. Tokyo : Japan Scientific Socieities Press/Karger pp. i-xvi + 1-289. [139–151]

Tribe, J. E. & Bock, I. R. 1981. Drosophila collections in southeastern Australia. Drosophila Information Service 56: i–viii + 313 pp. [143]

Van Klinken, R.D., Walter, G.H. & Ross, M.K. 2002. Drosophilidae (Diptera) of Australia's Northern Territory: ecology and biogeography. Australian Journal of Entomology 41(3): 236-242 [238]

Van Klinken, R.D. & Walter, G.H. 2001. Larval hosts of Australian Drosophilidae (Diptera): a field survey in subtropical and tropical Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 40(2): 163-179 [168, 176]

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