- Hirtodrosophila confusa
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Hirtodrosophila confusa Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Family: Drosophilidae Genus: Hirtodrosophila Species group: quadrivittata Species: H. confusa
(Staeger, 1844)Binomial name Hirtodrosophila confusa Synonyms Hirtodrosophila confusa is a widespread, but rarely common European species of fruit fly from the family Drosophilidae.[1]
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Description
Relatively large species (for Drosophilidae), wing length about 3.5mm, generally yellowish body with some variable brown triangular marking on the dorsal surface of the abdomen, wings yellowish.[1][2]
Distribution
Widespread in most of the Palaearctic though rare in northern parts,[2] absent from Great Britain.[3]
Biology
It is mostly associated with woodland habitat types. Specimens have been reared from fungi,[2] which is suspected to the preferred larval food. Populations peek about July.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Shorrocks, B. (1972). Invertebrate types: Drosophila.. London: Ginn & Co.. pp. 144 pp. ISBN 0080259413.
- ^ a b c Bächli, Gerhard; Vilela; Carlos R., Escher; Stefan Andersson, Saura; Anssi (2004) (Hardback). The Drosophilidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 39. Leiden: Brill. p. 245. ISBN 90 04 14074 3.
- ^ Chandler, Peter J. (1998). "Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. New Series (London: Royal Entomological Society of London) 12 (1): 1–234.
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