Two taxonomically undescribed Colocasiomyia species were discovered from inflorescences of Alocasia macrorrhizos in Kota Kinabalu City, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. The aims of this study were to investigate the reproductive ecology of the flies and the plant, ascertain the importance of the flies as pollinators and examine the intimate association between flowering events and life history of the f...

Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) is a species native to Western Asia that is able to pierce intact fruit during egg laying, causing it to be considered a fruit crop pest in many countries. Drosophila suzukii have a rapid expansion worldwide; occurrences were recorded in North America and Europe in 2008, and South America in 2013. Due to this rapid expansion, we modeled the potential distribution ...

The spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae), is an emerging invasive pest, which attacks a wide variety of fruits and berries. Although previous studies have focused on different aspects of D. suzukii reproductive biology, there are no protocols available for determining the mating status of D. suzukii females and drosophilids in general. In this study, a step-by-st...

A total of seven known species of the Leucophenga mutabilis species group are resurveyed from the East Asia: L. angusta Okada, 1956; L. bellula Bergroth, 1894; L. magnipalpis Duda, 1924; L. nigripalpis Duda, 1924; L. orientalis Lin & Wheeler, 1972; L. striatipennis Okada, 1989 and L. taiwanensis Lin & Wheeler, 1972. The diagnosis of the mutabilis group is revised, and a key to the seven species...

A rich history of investigation documents various Drosophila-yeast mutualisms, suggesting that Drosophila suzukii similarly has an association with a specific yeast species or community. To discover candidate yeast species, yeasts were isolated from larval frass, adult midguts, and fruit hosts of D. suzukii. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) technology and decimal diluti...

The current subgenus Drosophila (the traditional immigrans-tripunctata radiation) includes major elements of temperate drosophilid faunas in the northern hemisphere. Despite previous molecular phylogenetic analyses, the phylogeny of the subgenus Drosophila has not fully been resolved: the resulting trees have more or less varied in topology. One possible factor for such ambiguous results is tax...

in the course of studying the saprophagous flies of kermanshah province, the larvae of drosophila busckii (coquillett) and megaselia scalaris (loew) were collected on the moribund or dead larvae of polyphylla olivieri laporte in the orchards of sahneh during 2008-2009. the adult specimens of d. busckii and m. scalaris were identified by dr. diseny (university of cambridge) and dr. baechli (univ...

Drosophila suzukii Matsumura 1931 (Diptera: Drosophilidae) meyvelerde ekonomik anlamda zararlara yol açan istilacı bir türdür. Bu çalışmada D.suzukii’nin Adana ve Mersin illerinde nektarin kiraz bahçelerinde ergin popülasyon değişimi zarar oranı belirlenmiş, ayrıca tercih ettiği meyve olgunluk dönemleri tespit edilmiştir. 2017-2018 yıllarında, dörder adet bahçesinde yürütülen elma sirkesi ile h...