A revision of the Indian species of subgenus Scaptodrosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Abstract

The subgenus Scaptodrosophila of the genus Drosophila from India is revised, with the description of six new species, D. elenthiensis sp.n., D. ovidenticulata sp.n., D. oviminiatus sp.n., D. paraclubata sp.n., D. paratriangulifer sp.n., D. peniquadrata sp.n., and a new distribution record of D. pressobrunnea Tsacas & Chassagnard. A key to Indian species of Scaptodrosophila is also provided.

The genus Scaptodrosophila Duda (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part III: the riverata species group from China, with morphological and molecular evidence for five new species

“…Together, these taxa include ca 300 species. Here we describe five new species from China that are morphologically similar to five known, yet unplaced, species: S. cederholmi (Okada, 1988) from Sri Lanka; S. crocata (Bock, 1976) from Australia; S. paraclubata (Sundaran & Gupta, 1991) from India; S. puncticeps (Okada, 1956) from China, Kuril Islands, Korea, Japan; and S. riverata (Singh & Gupta, 1977) from China, India, Myanmar. These ten species all have a yellowish-brown body; an arista with two dorsal and one ventral branch in addition to a terminal bifurcation; a large facial carina; and developed prescutellar setae.…”