Drosophilidae

Introduction

The images below are used with kind permission from The University of Texas at Austin School of Biological Sciences. They are derived from two articles within two pubications dating from 1943 and 1944:

The University of Texas Publication No. 4313: April 1, 1943

STUDIES IN THE GENETICS OF DROSOPHILA III.
THE DROSOPHILIDAE OF THE SOUTHWEST
Directed by J. T. Patterson
Professor of Zoology
The University of Texas

The University of Texas Publication No. 4445: December 1, 1944

STUDIES IN THE GENETICS OF DROSOPHILA IV.
Papers dealing with the taxonomy, nutrition, cytology
and interspecific hybridization in Drosophila
Directed by J. T. Patterson
Professor of Zoology
The University of Texas

Appreciation is due Mrs. Sarah L. Martin for the great care she has taken in making the pastels and pen and ink drawings with which this publication is illustrated. Mrs. Martin made all of the finished drawings, although the dissections and outline drawings of the reproductive systems of thirty-five species were done by Dr. L. E. Rosenblad. [...] All other species were dissected and illustrated by Mrs. Martin, except that the stippling on some of the pen and ink drawings was done by Miss Virginia L. Smith.

Images

The description of color plates I--X from Publication No. 4313 is as follows:

THE COLOR PLATES
There are seventy-three forms illustrated in the ten plates. Each figure was outlined from a live specimen with the aid of a camera lucida and the details worked in by hand, using ink and pastels. All figures were drawn to the same scale, and all have been reduced the same amount in the reproductions. As they appear in the plates, the flies are magnified aproximately nineteen times. The finished plates were made by The Lakeside Press of Chicago, Illinois, using a 4-color process. The author believes that these illustrations will be of considerable help to collectors in identifying the different species of Drosophila, especially when used in connection with the detailed taxonomic descriptions found in the text. They are not intended to take the place of "type specimens" for the professional taxonomist, although they do emphasize to advantage many details of structure and color which he employs in his work. The types unfortunately are widely scattered in private collections and museums, and are not generally available except to the specialist on the group.

The description of color plates XI--XVI from Publication No. 4445 is as follows:

THE COLOR PLATES
There are thirty-five forms (species and subspecies) illustrated in the six color plates. These plates represent a continuation of the series of the similar ones which appeared in Publication No. 4313 (1943), and are therefore numbered XI to XVI. The method employed by Mrs. Martin in preparing the original pastels was the same for both sets of plates. Hence, all figures were drawn to the same scale, and, as reproduced, the flies are magnified about nineteen times. There are 108 forms shown on the sixteen plates. Of this number 82 have been found in Mexico, 43 are common to United States and Mexico, 26 were collected in United States only, and 39 in Mexico only.

Amiota albavictoria	Chymomyza amoena	Chymomyza procnemis	Drosophila meridiana rioensis
Drosophila affinis	Drosophila alafumosa	Drosophila alagitans	Drosophila aldrichi
Drosophila ananassae	Drosophila anceps	Drosophila arizonensis	Drosophila aurea
Drosophila bifurca	Drosophila biopaca	Drosophila bipunctata	Drosophila brevicarinata
Drosophila busckii	Drosophila calloptera	Drosophila canalinea	Drosophila capnoptera
Drosophila carbonaria	Drosophila cardini	Drosophila castanea	Drosophila cinerea
Drosophila crassa	Drosophila crocina	Drosophila duncani	Drosophila floricola
Drosophila fuliginea	Drosophila fulvalineata	Drosophila fulvimacula	Drosophila funebris
Drosophila gibberosa	Drosophila gigas	Drosophila grisea	Drosophila guttifera
Drosophila hamatofila	Drosophila hexastigma	Drosophila hydei	Drosophila hydeoides
Drosophila immigrans	Drosophila leonis	Drosophila longala	Drosophila longicornis
Drosophila macropolia	Drosophila macroptera	Drosophila macrospina	Drosophila magnabadia
Drosophila mainlandi	Drosophila melanica	Drosophila melanissima	Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanopalpa	Drosophila mercatorum	Drosophila meridiana	Drosophila micromelanica
Drosophila_mojavensis	Drosophila montana	Drosophila mulleri	Drosophila munda
Drosophila narragansett	Drosophila nebulosa	Drosophila nigricruria	Drosophila nigrohalterata
Drosophila nigrohydei	Drosophila nigromelanica	Drosophila nigrospiracula	Drosophila orbospiracula
Drosophila pachea	Drosophila parachrogaster	Drosophila pinicola_	Drosophila pollinospadix
Drosophila polychaeta	Drosophila ponderosa	Drosophila pseudoobscura	Drosophila putrida
Drosophila racemova	Drosophila repleta	Drosophila ritae	Drosophila robusta
Drosophila rubrifrons	Drosophila sellata	Drosophila sigmoides	Drosophila spenceri
Drosophila subbadia	Drosophila subfunebris	Drosophila submacroptera	Drosophila suboccidentalis
Drosophila subquinaria	Drosophila subviridis	Drosophila sucinea	Drosophila_texana
Drosophila transversa	Drosophila tripunctata	Drosophila uninubes	Drosophila unipunctata
Drosophila victoria	Drosophila virilis	Drosophila willistoni	Gitona americana
Gitona bivisualis	Leucophenga maculosa	Leucophenga pulcherrima	Leucophenga varia
Mycodrosophila dimidiata	Rhinoleucophenga obesa	Scaptomyza adusta	Sinophthalmus pictus gagei