Drosophilidae: Haleakala II

The story of the Hawaiian Drosophilidae is an impressive one indeed. With more than 600 described Drosophilid species and hundreds more thought to exist but not yet decribed, Hawaii is a global diversity hotspot for this family of flies. There are more drosophilid species per unit area found here than anywhere else on earth. What's more impressive is that they may have all originated from a single ancestor that was likely blown to the islands hundreds of thousands of years ago. Once here, the group experienced what is known as adaptive radiation, with groups of flies evolving to fill isolated niches on different islands, generating the hundreds of species we see today. Ecologically and behaviorally diverse, the drosophilids of Hawaii are certainly a defining insect group for the UHIM collection and the history of Hawaiian entomology. The flies we need your help transcribing here today hail from Haleakala, a massive shield volcano located in east Maui! Please assist the UHIM with the transcription of this unique assemblage of Hawaiian Diptera. The total number of tasks for this dataset is: 612, number transcribed is 612 and number validated is 0. This data resource is harvested periodically into the main occurrence index.

夏威夷果蝇科（Drosophilidae）的演化故事着实令人赞叹。目前已记述的该科物种逾600种，另有数百种待发现并正式定名，夏威夷已然成为该蝇科昆虫的全球生物多样性热点区域，单位面积内的果蝇科物种密度位居全球之首。更令人称奇的是，所有这些物种或许均源自数十万年前被气流裹挟至群岛的单一祖先类群。抵达夏威夷后，该类群经历了经典的适应性辐射演化：不同类群的果蝇逐步分化，占据各岛屿上的孤立生态位，最终形成了如今所见的数百个物种。从生态与行为特征来看，夏威夷果蝇科兼具丰富多样性，无疑是夏威夷大学昆虫博物馆（University of Hawaii Insect Museum, UHIM）馆藏与夏威夷昆虫学史中极具标志性的昆虫类群。本次需要您协助转录的蝇类标本，均采自茂宜岛东部的巨型盾状火山哈雷阿卡拉（Haleakala）！恳请您协助夏威夷大学昆虫博物馆完成这批独特夏威夷双翅目（Diptera）类群的转录工作。本数据集的总任务量为612项，已完成转录612项，待验证0项。该数据集资源将定期被收录至主物种出现索引库。