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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Ephydroidea » Vinegar Flies (Drosophilidae) » Drosophilinae » Drosophila » (Sophophora) melanogaster species group (Drosophila (Sophophora) melanogaster species group) » Spotted-winged Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii)
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Spotted-winged Drosophila - Drosophila suzukii - male
Copyright © 2014 tom murray

Spotted-winged Drosophila - Drosophila suzukii - Male
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 2, 2014
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Contributed by tom murray on 2 October, 2014 - 9:50pm

Male
Spotted-wing Drosophila with spotted wings are male. Also, in this species group the flies with a tuft of black hairs on the fore basitarsus are male.
… John F. Carr, 2 October, 2014 - 9:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John
so would this one be the female?
… tom murray, 2 October, 2014 - 10:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Maybe
A closeup of the ovipositor could ID the female. I don't know how else to do it.
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/fruit/flies/drosophila_suzukii.htm
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=63481
… John F. Carr, 2 October, 2014 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

 
Maybe next time
… tom murray, 2 October, 2014 - 10:22pm login or register to post comments

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