Drosophila alsophila Hardy & Kaneshiro, 1971
Banded picturewing fly
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1985 (Suckling et al. 2004)
Distribution
Mt. Hualalai, Hawaii (=Big Island), Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hardy, D. E. and Kaneshiro, K. Y. (1971). New picture-winged Drosophila from Hawaii, part II. (Drosophilidae, Diptera). Univ. Tex. Publs. 7103: 151-170.
Other references:
Magnacca, K. N. and Price, D. K. (2012). New species of Hawaiian picture wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with a key to species. Zootaxa 3188: 1-30.
Nishida, G. M. (ed.). (1994). Hawaiian Terrestrial Arthropoda Checklist. Second Edition. Hawaii Biological Survey, Contribution No. 94-04. Bishop Museum: Honolulu, Hawaii. 287 pp.
Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). 1996. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Plant and Animal Taxa That Are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened Species. Federal Register 61(40): 7596-7613.
USFWS. (1997). Notice of Reclassification of Ten Candidate Taxa. United States Fish and Wildife Service, September 19, 1997, 62 FR 49191.