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

By

Peñafiel Vinueza, Ana
Ecuador, Violeta

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

781

Pages

141-163

Subjects

Drosophila , guarani group , new species , southern Ecuador , terminalia

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.781.22841

 

Abstract

Five species of the genus Drosophila are described and illustrated: D.zamoranasp. n., D.quinarensissp. n., D.sachapuyusp. n., D.caxarumisp. n., and D.misisp. 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 Drosophilaguarani species-group.