Five new species of Drosophila guarani group from the Andes of southern Ecuador (Diptera, Drosophilidae)

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Drosophila · Topics: Insect behavior and control techniques, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Forest Insect Ecology and Management

Five species of the genus Drosophila are described and illustrated: D. zamorana sp. n., D. quinarensis sp. n., D. sachapuyu sp. n., D. caxarumi sp. n., and D. misi sp. n. from the cloud forests of the Podocarpus National Park, in the southern Ecuadorian Andes. Flies were captured using plastic bottles containing pieces of fermented banana with yeast. All the species were found to belong to the Drosophila guarani species-group.

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