New record of Drosophila nebulosa Sturtevant, 1916 (Diptera, Drosophilidae) in western Argentina extends its southern distribution

In the present work we are reporting for the first time the presence of D. nebulosa in San Juan province enlarging in a south-western direction its Andean distributional range. Our sampling site, San Agustín del Valle Fértil (30° 38’ 1” S, 67° 27’ 59” W) is located at 250 km north-east of the capita...

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Autores: Mongiardino Koch, Nicolás, Padro, Julian, Garay, Daniela Celeste, Soto, Ignacio Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/68652
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/68652
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:DROSOPHILA NEBULOSA
ARGENTINA
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Sumario:In the present work we are reporting for the first time the presence of D. nebulosa in San Juan province enlarging in a south-western direction its Andean distributional range. Our sampling site, San Agustín del Valle Fértil (30° 38’ 1” S, 67° 27’ 59” W) is located at 250 km north-east of the capital city of the province, San Juan. This zone belongs to the Phytogeographic Province known as Monte (Cabrera, 1971) with a vegetation typical of a shrub steppe adapted to warm and arid weather, with periodic droughts of 6 to 9 months a year and mean annual precipitation of 200-250 mm (Mirré, 1976). The vegetation is of a xeric environment, with scarce arboreal vegetation, mainly represented by “algarrobos” (genus Prosopis), and cacti of Echinopsis (cardon) and Opuntia (prickly pear) genera.