Cladochaeta sororia (Williston, 1896)

Carvalho-Filho, Fernando Da Silva, Pirani, Gabriela & Kloss, Thiago Gechel, 2018, A new species and notes on unusual natural history of Cladochaeta Coquillett, 1900 (Diptera: Drosophilidae), Zootaxa 4410 (3), pp. 483-496 : 491-494

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scientific name	Cladochaeta sororia (Williston, 1896)
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Cladochaeta sororia (Williston, 1896) View in CoL

( Figs. 7 View FIGURES5–7 , 9 View FIGURES 8–9 , 31–34 View FIGURES 31–34 )

Drosophila sororia Williston, 1896: 408 View in CoL ; Sturtevant, 1921: 87 (redescription); Wheeler, 1970: 79.30 (catalogue); Wheeler, 1981: 66 (catalogue).

Cladochaeta sororia: Vilela & Bächli, 1990: 14 View in CoL , Figs. 9 View FIGURES 8–9 , 10 View FIGURES 10–15 , 144, 153 (new combination, lectotype designation, redescription); Grimaldi & Nguyen, 1999: 107 –108, Figs. 51, 52, 54, 56, 70 (redescription of male and description of female); Tidon & Almeida, 2016: 722 (catalogue).

Material examined. BRAZIL: Pará: Belém , urban garden, 1°25'51.19"S; 48°27'11.73"W, F.S. Carvalho Filho [collector], 28.V.2014 ( 3 ♂♂) GoogleMaps ; 18.III.2015 (1 ♂); 26.III.2015 (1 ♂); 28.IV. 2 0 15 (2 ♂♂), 27.IV.2016 (4 ♂♂), 20.I.2017 (6 ♂♂), 17.V.2017 (2 ♂♂ and 1♀),.

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL—Colombia ( Valle del Cauca), Costa Rica ( San José), Brazil ( Pará), Ecuador ( Chimborazo), Nicaragua (El Rama), Panama (Canal Zone, Darien), Peru ( Madre de Dios), St. Vicent, Trinidad ( Arima), Venezuela (Montes).

Comments. This is one of the most widely distributed species of Cladochaeta in South America ( Grimaldi & Nguyen 1999), but this is the first record from Brazil, where it was easily found in a garden of an urban residence. It was usually found flicking the wings on leaves of the introduced plant Ixora coccinea (Rubiaceae) and the invasive Solanum americanum (Solanaceae) .

Illustrations of the terminalia of this species were presented by Vilela & Bächli, (1990) and Grimaldi & Nguyen (1999).