Species Drosophila (Sophophora) setifemur Malloch, 1924

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drosophila setifemur Malloch, J.R. 1924. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 348-359 [24 October] [351].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K50090 ♀, Sydney, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM 118452 ♀, Sydney, New South Wales; USNM 2♀ (comment on type, see Lee et al. (1956)), Sydney, New South Wales.
• Drosophila dispar Mather, W.B. 1955. The genus Drosophila in eastern Queensland I. Taxonomy. Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 545-582 [December] [570].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McEvey, S.F. 2009. Taxonomic review of the Australian Drosophila setifemur species group, a new name for the D. dispar species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Records of the Australian Museum 61: 31-38 (D. setifemur redescribed and removed from synonymy with D. dispar following examination of type material)

 

Introduction

McEvey (2009) rearranged Drosophila setifemus and renamed D. dispar species group as Drosophila setifemur species group; and provided key to Australian species of Drosophila with seriate spinescent setulae on fore-femur.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Victoria

General References

McEvey, S.F. 2009. Taxonomic review of the Australian Drosophila setifemur species group, a new name for the D. dispar species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Records of the Australian Museum 61: 31-38

 

History of changes

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