Notes. A Note on the Genus Drosophilella Duda (Diptera; Drosophilidae)

Abstract

The generic name Drosophilella was first published by Duda (1923:25) in the combination "Drosophilella seminigra n.sp." D. seminigra, then, is the type species by monotypy. However, he apparently intended to publish it as a new genus, with two new species, in another article, written earlier but published a year later (Duda, 1924a). The two species were D. seminigra and D. colocasiae, the former from Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (now Madang), New Guinea, and the latter from Nongkodjadjar, Java, collected from the plant Colocasia antiquarum (Schott).