Drosophila dasycnemia Hardy
Creators: name: Lapoint, Richard T.
name: Magnacca, Karl N.
name: O'Grady, Patrick M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Drosophila
Drosophila dasycnemia

description: Drosophila dasycnemia Hardy
Figures 2 b and 3d
Drosophila dasycnemia Hardy, 1965: 236 –238
Diagnosis. Elongate setae present on the posterior surface of fore tibia. The legs are yellow except for brown coxae and terminal portions of the last tarsi (see Fig. 2 b). Wings are lightly infuscated with a brown marking apically, which extends from cell R1 to halfway through cell R4+5 (see Fig. 3 d). The thorax is brown, and the abdomen is almost entirely dark brown, with the last tergite being yellow.
Types. HAWAI‘I: Holotype ɗ (BPBM 6337) Upper Ōla‘a Forest, viii.1952, DEH (Evenhuis 1982).
Material Examined. HAWAI‘I: 61ɗ have been deposited in the BPBM: ɗ, Kaiwiki, ix.1918, OHS; 2 ɗ, Stainback Highway, 3600’, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; 2 ɗ, Stainback Highway, Tom's Trail, 3200', x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; 2 ɗ, Kīpuka 9, Kaūmana Trail, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; 5 ɗ, Ōla‘a Forest, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; 5 ɗ, Ōla‘a Tr 18, vi.2006, KNM; 10 ɗ, Ōla‘a Tr 18, ii.2006, KNM; 3 ɗ, Kawaihae Uka, Kohalas, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; ɗ, Kukuiopa‘e, South Kona Forest Reserve, x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB; 5 ɗ, Laupāhoehoe, 3700', x.2006, KNM, RTL, GMB. 30 ɗ from the UHIM have been examined from the following localities: 5 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a, vii.1956, DEH, WCM; 3 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a, viii.1958, DEH, WCM; 12 ɗ, Upper Ōla‘a, viii.1952, DEH, WCM; 7 ɗ, Kīlauea, viii.1958, JWB; 2 ɗ, Volcano, v.1915, AB; ɗ, Mud Lane, vi.1964, DEH, LHT. The following material is present at AMNH: 5 ɗ, Forest behind Volcano Solid Waste Transfer Station, O40.4, 5.vii.1998, PMO, SLM; 14 ɗ, Stainback Highway, 7–8.ii.1999, O49.3, PMO, SLM; 2 ɗ, Forest behind Volcano Solid Waste Transfer Station, O51.5, 12–14.iii.1999, PMO, JBS; 5 ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, near Pole 44, O93.6, 7.ix.2000, PMO; 16 ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, near Pole 44, O132.6, 2.viIi.2001, PMO, CDS. The following material is in the Essig Museum of Entomology at UC Berkeley: 8 ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Ōla‘a Forest, near pole 48, O247.2; O201321; 6–7.vii.2004, PMO, MG, CDS; 5 ɗ, Tree Planting Road, O256.8; O201497; 11.vii.2004, PMO, MG; 4 ɗ, Puu Makaala Trailhead, O257.1, O201318, 11.vii.2004, PMO, MG; ɗ, Kohala Mountains, Top of Waipio Falls, O269.6, O201595, 16.vii.2004, PMO, CDS, GS, SH, MG; 2 ɗ, Volcanoes National Park, Upper Ōla‘a Forest, end of Wright Road, O272.F, O 200625; 20.vii.2004, PMO, MG, GS, AC.
Distribution. This species is endemic to the island of Hawai‘i.
Behavior. Speith (1966:272).
Ecology. This species has been reared from leaves of Cheirodendron trigynum (Araliaceae) (Heed 1968; Mangan 1978).
Illustrations. Morphological structures of this species are depicted in multiple publications including: foreleg (Hardy 1965: 237, fig. 74a); phallus (Kaneshiro 1976: 267, fig. 5 Ψ); terminalia, male, lateral (Hardy 1965: 237, fig. 74c); wing (Hardy 1965: 237, fig. 74b; Edwards et al 2007: fig7).
Molecular Biology. DNA sequences (Baker & DeSalle 1997).
description: Published as part of Lapoint, Richard T., Magnacca, Karl N. & O'Grady, Patrick M., 2009, Review of the spoon tarsus subgroup of Hawaiian Drosophila (Drosophilidae: Diptera), with a description of one new species, pp. 53-68 in Zootaxa 2003 on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185613