A preliminary study on the distribution of Drosophila melanogaster species group (Diptera: Drosophildae) in Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia

THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL
VOL LXXVIII NO.99 DECEMBER 2017

Title :
A preliminary study on the distribution of Drosophila melanogaster species group (Diptera: Drosophildae) in Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia

Author :
Tan Siew Hwa and Wong Siew Fui

Abstract:

The distribution of eleven Drosophila species, members of ananassae and montium subgroups, belonging to the melanogaster species group were studied in three districts of Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. A total of 861 fruit flies were collected from the districts of Kuching, Bau and Lundu from 3rd to 28th March 2015. Nine species from the ananassae subgroup and two species belonging to the montium subgroup were obtained in the study. The most common Drosophila species collected in Kuching Division was the D. bipectinata while Drosophila ananassae, D. anomalata and D. sp. cf. jambulina were the three species strongly associated with residential area in Kuching District. D. pseudoananassae pseudoananassae was the species that was only collected in Lundu District. In this study, nine new records of the genus Drosophila from Sarawak were established among which five were new records from southwest Borneo.

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2017-37HG-08

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Tan Siew Hwa and Wong Siew Fui (2017). A preliminary study on the distribution of Drosophila melanogaster species group (Diptera: Drosophildae) in Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. Sarawak Museum Journal, LXXVIII (99): 177-187 https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2017-37HG-08

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