Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Drosophila cardini
Mosca de la fruta, Fruit fly
Adults of this species were recently reared from passionfruit in the Scalesia zone (Los Gemelos), oranges in the littoral zone, and from freshly collected Galápagos tomatoes in the highlands on Santa Cruz (Lehnen et al. unpubl.) (Sinclair 2023).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Suborder
Brachycera
Family
Drosophilidae
Genus
Drosophila
Species
cardini
Taxon category: Accepted
It belongs to the Drosophila cardini species group
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2020
Mode of introduction: Accidental
Introduction Pathway: Contaminant
Subpathway: Food contaminant
Introduced status: Naturalized
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Santa Cruz
- Sinclair, B. J. (2023) An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador). Zootaxa, 5283, 1-102
- Sturtevant, A. (1916) Notes on North American Drosophilidae with description of twenty-three new species Sturtevant, A. H. 1916. Notes on North American Drosophilidae with description of twenty-three new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 9: 323-343
- Vilela, C.R. Silva, A., Sene, F. (2002) Preliminary data on the geographical distribution of Drosophila species within morphoclimatic domains of Brazil. III. The cardini group Vilela, C. R., Silva, A. F. G. D., & Sene, F. D. M. (2002). Preliminary data on the geographical distribution of Drosophila species within morphoclimatic domains of Brazil. III. The cardini group. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 46(2), 139-148.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Drosophila cardini", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18797. Accessed 9 June 2026.