Drosophila montgomeryi

Drosophila montgomeryi
Conservation status
Endangered  (ESA) [1]
Scientific classification
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]

Description

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.

Conservation

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]}

References

1. "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.
2. Hardy, D. E.; Kaneshiro, K. Y. (1971). "New picture-winged Drosophila from Hawaii. II. (Drosophilidae, Diptera)". Studies in Genetics VI: 151–170.
3. "ECOS: Species Profile". ecos.fws.gov. Retrieved 2022-06-26.
4. 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. Bibcode:2015MolPE..92..226M. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.06.014. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   26151218.
5. 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.