Drosophila simulans Sturtevant 1919

simulans Sturtevant Drosophila simulans Sturtevant, 1919: 153. Wheeler 1961: 750 [records]; Linsley & Usinger 1966: 169 [checklist]; Delgado Zúñiga 1975: 38 [chromosomal analysis]. Drosophila (Sophophora) simulans: Carson et al. 1983: 241 [records]; Peck et al. 1998: 228 [introduced species]; Causton et al. 2006: 134 [introduced species]. Distribution. Introduced. Cosmopolitan; Galápagos: Baltra, Isabela, San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz. Remarks. Adults of this species were collected in the agricultural zone (Carson et al. 1983) and were reared from oranges (Wheeler 1961).
Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), pp. 1-102 in Zootaxa 5283 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7912667
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