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Issue: Vol. 5120 No. 4: 29 Mar. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-03-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.4.8
Page range: 586-594
Abstract views: 331
PDF downloaded: 13

A new species of the Colocasiomyia gigantea species group (Diptera, Drosophilidae) breeding on inflorescences of Scindapsus maclurei (Araceae)

State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China. 2.Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China. Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
.Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.
Diptera Aroid COI DNA barcoding genetic distance morphology taxonomy

Abstract

The gigantea group is one of the six species groups of the genus Colocasiomyia Meijere, 1914 (Diptera, Drosophilidae). All the nine known species of this group breed on inflorescence/infructescence of host plants of the subfamily Monsteroideae (Araceae) and are geographically restricted to the Oriental region: seven species found exclusively from Rhaphidophora spp. in southern China, and the remaining two from Sabah (host plant: Scindapsus coriaceus) in Borneo or from West Java (host plant: Epipremnum pinnatum). In the present paper, a new member of the gigantea group, C. daiae sp. nov., is described, with adult specimens and eggs collected from inflorescences of Scindapsus maclurei in Hainan, China and larvae and pupae reared from field-collected eggs in the laboratory.

 

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