A new Costa Rican species of Drosophila visiting inflorescences of the hemi-epiphytic climber Monstera lentii (Araceae)

The flower flies and the unknown diversity of Drosophilidae (Diptera): a biodiversity inventory in the Brazilian fauna

“…In fact, drosophilid records in Brazil are strongly biased towards fruit-feeding species of Drosophila, and to southeastern and southern localities (more exactly, near the main universities, and the present survey is no exception); moreover, about one third of the species recorded in Brazil is known for a single locality (Gottschalk et al, 2008). Some new anthophilic species were described recently for Neotropics (Vaz et al, 2014(Vaz et al, , 2018Grimaldi, 2016;Llangarí & Rafael, 2017;Vilela & Prieto, 2018), but none of them seem to be conspecific with the species of unknown identity reported in the present survey.…”

“…In Neotropics, the best-studied flower-specialized species belong to the Drosophila flavopilosa species group (Brncic, 1962a(Brncic, , 1966(Brncic, , 1978Santos & Vilela, 2005;Robe et al, 2013), associated to flowers of the genus Cestrum (Solanaceae). Other notable anthophilic Drosophila taxa in Neotropical region are the D. bromeliae and D. lutzii species groups, both widespread in the Neotropics and associated to flowers of several botanical families Silva & Martins, 2004;Grimaldi, 2016;Vilela & Prieto, 2018); the D. onychophora and D. xanthopallescens species groups, reported respectively to the northern Andes and Central America (Pipkin, 1964;Hunter, 1979), and some species of uncertain affinities associated to Araceae inflorescences Vaz et al, 2014Vaz et al, , 2018Llangarí & Rafael, 2017). Reports from other genera are also known, especially for Zygothrica Wiedemann (Grimaldi, 1987;Endara et al, 2010;Fonseca et al, 2017) and the poorly known Laccodrosophila Duda and Zapriothrica Wheeler (Heed et al, 1960).…”

On the identities of Neotropical Stegana species (Diptera, Drosophilidae). I. Redescription of Stegana magnifica Hendel, 1913 and Stegana fumipennis (Enderlein, 1922)

“…The habitus of the two holotypes was photomicrographed with the rear camera of a Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone, which was attached to the right eyepiece of a Wild M3 stereomicroscope through a magnetic plate of a clothespin-shaped plastic adapter as shown in Figs. 1a-h and as described previously (Vilela and Prieto, 2018;Vilela and Bächli, 2019;Bächli and Vilela, 2020a). Objective lenses of 1.6×, and 4× were used, and the camera was set to default or optically zoomed to Figure 1 Plastic clothespin-shaped adapter used for connecting the smartphone to the stereomicroscope eyepiece, several views: a) swivel magnetic plate seen from below (blue rectangle), b) a movable metal plate placed over the magnetic plate seen from above, c) swivel magnetic plate (metal plate removed) with four circles in the center of velvet cover, oblique view, d) adapter attached to the stereomicroscope with the magnetic rectangle plate partially placed over the right eyepiece but not touching the left eyepiece, posterior view, e) idem, oblique view, f) idem, anterior view of the uncovered right eyepiece lens to where the rear camera should be positioned, g) a movable metal plate placed inside the smartphone case, h) smartphone obliquely positioned over the right eyepiece as seen by the observer.…”

Distribution of Araceae and the Diversity of Life Forms

“…The subject of thermogenesis in temperate plants and observations of pollination on temperate aroids such as Arum is so extensive that it will be ignored here but the situation with tropical aroids is quite different. Currently this is changing and many new researchers are actively engaged in creating a better understanding of the systems of pollination (Gibernau, 2016), especially with Amorphophallus (Kite & Hetterscheid, 2017), Anthurium (Bleiweiss, Sornoza-Molina, et al, 2019;Bleiweiss, Trujillo, et al, 2019;Díaz-Jiménez, Hentrich, Aguilar-Rodríguez, et al, 2019;Etl et al, 2017;Franz, 2007;Gómez-Murillo & Cuartas-Hernández, 2016;Hartley & Gibernau, 2018;Hartley et al, 2017;Hentrich et al, 2010;Schwerdtfeger et al, 2002), Dieffenbachia (Beath, 1999;Etl et al, 2016;Gibernau, 2015aGibernau, , 2015bGibernau et al, 2001;Young, 1986Young, , 1988aYoung, , 1988bYoung, , 1990, Monstera (Cedeño, 2019;Chouteau et al, 2007;Díaz-Jiménez et al, 2020;Díaz-Jiménez, Hentrich, Aguilar-Rodríguez, et al, 2019;Prieto & Cascante-Marín, 2017;Vilela & Prieto, 2018), Montrichardia (Gibernau, 2003;, Spathiphyllum (Díaz-Jiménez, Hentrich, Ruiz-Idarraga, et al, 2019;Hentrich et al, 2010;Montalvo & Ackerman, 1986), Taccarum Maia et al, 2013), Caladium (Maia, Dötterl, et al, 2012), Xanthosoma (García-Robledo et al, 2004…”