First record of Zaprionus indianus Gupta, 1970 (Diptera, Drosophilidae) in Argentina.

SOTO, IGNACIO; CRISTIAN CORIO,; JOSÉ FANARA, JUAN; ESTEBAN HASSON,

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Oklahoma University

Año: 2006 vol. 89 p. 13 - 14

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The genus Zaprionus, Coquillet, 1901 is composed by two subgenus with 56 species (Vilela et al, 2001) from the Old World. Zaprionus indianus (Gupta, 1970) is a drosophilid originally from the Afrotropical region and recently introduced in America. It was registered in this continent for the first time in Brazil (Santa Isabel, State of São Paulo) on March 1999 and has rapidly spread to southwards. We are reporting for the first time the presence of Zaprionus indianus in argentine territory with the consequent widening of the former distributional range westwards. Future works in Argentina will further elucidate the new distributional range of this pest.