Drosophilidae, Rondani, 1856

Mendes, Mayara Ferreira, Valer, Felipe Berti, Vieira, Júlia Gabriela Aleixo, Blauth, Monica Laner & Gottschalk, Marco Silva, 2017, Diversity of Drosophilidae (Insecta, Diptera) in the Restinga forest of southern Brazil, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61 (3), pp. 248-256 : 255

Drosophilidae of the Restinga forest

In Brazil, two studies focusing on Drosophilidae from Restinga environments have been performed ( Bizzo and Sene, 1982; Bizzo et al., 2010). The areas sampled by Bizzo and Sene (1982) and Bizzo et al. (2010) have comparatively sparser vegetation and a greater marine influence ( Falkenberg, 1999; Martins et al., 2008). Moreover, due to latitudinal differences, HBITL has a lower average temperature in the coldest month (approximately 4 ◦ C) than the areas studied by Bizzo and Sene (1982) in São Paulo (46 ◦ 56 lW; 24 ◦ 14 lS) and by Bizzo et al. (2010) in Santa Catarina (48 ◦ 27 l 49 llW; 27 ◦ 38 l 21 llS), with averages in the coldest month of approximately 18 ◦ C. Nonetheless, the average temperature in the warmest month is the same in the areas covered by these three studies (approximately 25 ◦ C). Therefore, few similarities in species composition were observed when compared with our data, whereby the dominant species, with the exception of D. simulans and the D. willistoni subgroup, were different from Bizzo and Sene (1982) and Bizzo et al. (2010). In the Restinga forest of São Paulo, the D. cardini group (non- D. polymorpha ) and D. sturtevanti were common, and D. malerkotliana was uncommon; in Restinga of Santa Catarina, Za. indianus and D. fumipennis were common and D. nebulosa was uncommon.