Drosophila montgomeryi | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Drosophilidae |
Genus: | Drosophila |
Species: | D. montgomeryi
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Binomial name | |
Drosophila montgomeryi (
Hardy and Kaneshiro, 1971)
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Drosophila montgomeryi is an endangered species of fly from the lineage of Hawaiian Drosophilidae. It is found on the island of Oahu. [1]
Drosophila montgomeryi was described in 1971 by D. Elmo Hardy and Kenneth Kaneshiro from specimens collected from the Waianae mountains. [2] [3]
D. montgomeryi, like other species in the vesciseta subgroup of picture-wing flies, [4] has a mostly rufous thorax and wings with a prominent dark spot in the cell R1. [1] It can be distinguished from the similar species D. pisonia by a narrow, brown stripe on each side of the thorax, among other characters.
Drosophila montgomeryi was listed as federally endangered in 2006 along with ten other species of picture-wing Drosophila. [1] One threat to the conservation of D. montgomeryi is that at least one of its host plants, Urera kaalae, is also very rare and has been listed as federally endangered. [1] [5]
Drosophila montgomeryi | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Drosophilidae |
Genus: | Drosophila |
Species: | D. montgomeryi
|
Binomial name | |
Drosophila montgomeryi (
Hardy and Kaneshiro, 1971)
|
Drosophila montgomeryi is an endangered species of fly from the lineage of Hawaiian Drosophilidae. It is found on the island of Oahu. [1]
Drosophila montgomeryi was described in 1971 by D. Elmo Hardy and Kenneth Kaneshiro from specimens collected from the Waianae mountains. [2] [3]
D. montgomeryi, like other species in the vesciseta subgroup of picture-wing flies, [4] has a mostly rufous thorax and wings with a prominent dark spot in the cell R1. [1] It can be distinguished from the similar species D. pisonia by a narrow, brown stripe on each side of the thorax, among other characters.
Drosophila montgomeryi was listed as federally endangered in 2006 along with ten other species of picture-wing Drosophila. [1] One threat to the conservation of D. montgomeryi is that at least one of its host plants, Urera kaalae, is also very rare and has been listed as federally endangered. [1] [5]