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 | |
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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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Description
editDrosophila 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.
Conservation
editDrosophila 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]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Status for 12 Species of Picture-Wing Flies From the Hawaiian Islands". Federal Register. Fish and Wildlife Service. May 9, 2006. pp. 26835–26852. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
- ^ Hardy, D. E.; Kaneshiro, K. Y. (1971). "New picture-winged Drosophila from Hawaii. II. (Drosophilidae, Diptera)". Studies in Genetics VI: 151–170.
- ^ "ECOS: Species Profile". ecos.fws.gov. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
- ^ Magnacca, Karl N.; Price, Donald K. (2015-11-01). "Rapid adaptive radiation and host plant conservation in the Hawaiian picture wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 92: 226–242. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.06.014. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 26151218.
- ^ Magnacca, Karl N.; Foote, David; O’grady, Patrick M. (2008-03-17). "A review of the endemic Hawaiian Drosophilidae and their host plants". Zootaxa. 1728 (1): 1–58–1–58. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1728.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.