Amiota (Phortica) goetzi sp.n. (Diptera, Drosophilidae) with faunistic notes to Drosophilidae, Odiniidae and Periscelididae from southeastern Europe and Turkey
Máca J.
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 42: 311-320, 1987
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Abstract: Amiota (Ptiortica) goetzi sp. n. is described from Turkey and altogether 21 new
records of Drosophilidae species are given from individual countries (Albania,
Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, European USSR, Turkey); some localities in Yugoslavia
were also investigated. The new records from some countries encompass the
species mentioned from there (without concrete locality) as „unpublished“ by
Bächli and Rocha Pite (1982). Periscelididae and Odiniidae (one species each)
are recorded for the first time from Bulgaria. The localities investigated by
author are characterized briefly as for the main components of their vegetation.
The highland localities (especially in Roumania) were found to harbour some
stenoecious forest species of Drosophilidae; the coastal localities (including
those little affected by man) showed high proportion of synanthropic species of
this family. Convenience of the collecting methods used and of the collecting
season are critically appreciated. Stigmatomyces scaptomyzae Thaxter, a parasite
fungus of Scaptomyza pallida Zett., is given from Roumania. A case of aberrant
sex ratio of Drosophila simulans Sturt. and D. subobscura Collin is recorded.
Key words: Diptera, Drosophilidae, Balkan Peninsula, distribution, Laboulbeniales