Species Drosophila (Dorsilopha) busckii Coquillett, 1901

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• Drosophila busckii Coquillet, D.W. 1901. Three new species of Diptera. Entomological News 12: 16-18 [January] [18] [as buskii, error].

  Type data:

   Lectotype USNM 5396 5577, on rotten potatoes / In Nov, 17, 92 / Type No. 5396, U.S.N.M., Washington, D.C., Charlestown, W Va., and Algonquin, Ill. USA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bächli, G. 1982. On the type material of Palearctic species of Drosophilidae (Diptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 2: 289-301.
• Drosophila rubrostriata Becker, T. 1908. Dipteran der Kanarischen Inseln. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 4: 1-180 [155].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMB ♀ Vill. Orotava II 47 105 / - busckii Coqu., det. Dr. O. Duda / Typus, Villa Orotava.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMB Villa Orotava II 47 105 / = busckii Coqu., det. D.r O. Duda / Typus, Villa Orotava.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bächli, G. 1982. On the type material of Palearctic species of Drosophilidae (Diptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 2: 289-301 [292].

  Secondary source:

   Okada, T. 1956. Systematic Study of Drosophilidae and Allied Families of Japan. Tokyo : Gihodo Co. Ltd. ii 183 pp. [20 September] [90]; Bächli, G. 1982. On the type material of Palearctic species of Drosophilidae (Diptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 2: 289-301 [292].
• Drosophila plurilineata Villeneuve, J. 1911. Description de deux nouveaux Diptères. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 30: 81-84 [Date published 31 May 1911] [83].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) IPK, Paris; ZMB (Paris, I. 1911 / Drosophila plurilineata Villeneuve i. litt.), Paris.

  Secondary source:

   Rohlfien, K. & Ewald, B. 1972. Katalog der in den Sammlungen des ehemaligen Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes aufbewahrten Typen — VIII. (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha: Schizophora: Acalyptratae). Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 22: 407-469 [453]; Bächli, G. 1982. On the type material of Palearctic species of Drosophilidae (Diptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 2: 289-301 [292].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sturtevant, A.H. 1918. A synopsis of the Nearctic species of the genus Drosophila (sensu lato). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 38: 441-446 [445] (synonymy of rubrostriata with busckii first noted by Knab in pers. comm. to Sturtevant (1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 38: 441-446) who wrote "Mr F. Knab pointed out this synonymy to me in the first instance...")

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Sabah, Taiwan, Japan, Bonin Is., Hawaiian Ils, USA, Cuba, Canaries, Madagascar, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Europe, Spain, Belgium, France.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)