Thread subject: Diptera.info :: female Drosophila - melanogaster?
Posted by John Sankey on 15-10-2012 21:22
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15 Oct 2012
length 2.6 mm
Edited by John Sankey on 16-10-2012 13:05
Posted by bahar 90 on 15-10-2012 22:02
#2
Drosophilidae??:)
Posted by djo on 15-10-2012 22:38
#3
Drosophila melanogaster! I think. I think that's a sex comb I can see on the foreleg folded underneath, and its certainly not
D. simulans.
If this was taken in Africa, or if that is not a sex comb, it becomes harder... Do you have any more images?
Posted by John Sankey on 15-10-2012 23:51
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Ottawa Canada
MND Drosophilidae gives 1,4,9,10,17,18,19,20 to Drosophila OK. What details needed to confirm D.melanogaster?
Edited by John Sankey on 16-10-2012 01:09
Posted by djo on 16-10-2012 09:04
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As someone will no doubt point out to me soon.....
I was so obsessed with that black blob being a sex comb that I failed (embarrassingly!) to spot that this fly is in fact
female.
This is acutely embarrassing.
I still stand by Dmel as a good guess, though Dsim can't easily be ruled out. (Black band on penultimate tergite reaches the sternite
suggests Dmel).
Other northern european yellowish drosophila can be ruled out by looking at the black bands on the tergites: if there's a gap in the middle of its back it is subgenus Drosophila (and thus not melanogaster)
Posted by djo on 16-10-2012 09:12
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And also I've just noticed that that you're in Ottawa. I shall give up. (The guess still stands, but I I don't know the North American Drosophila.)
Posted by John Sankey on 16-10-2012 13:12
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no gap on the back. Thanks, Darren.