“…Additionally, we test the accuracy of NIRS to correctly identify wild‐caught Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans by comparing it to an allele‐specific PCR test. There is a need for developing accurate, effective, low‐cost and efficient approaches that can be used in the field (Falk, Wallace, & Ndoen, ; Nansen & Elliott, ). Increasingly, NIRS is being used by the entomological community and it has been shown to accurately identify a range of species including Anopheles mosquitoes (Mayagaya et al, ), Zootermopsis termites (Aldrich, Maghirang, Dowell, & Kambhampati, ), Calliphoridae blowflies (Voss, Magni, Dadour, & Nansen, ), and Tetramorium ants (Kinzner et al, ).…”