Temperature is a common climatic descriptor of lachryphagous activity period in Phortica variegata (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from multiple geographical locations

Table 1 Collections of Phortica variegata flies over the sampling period (expressed as month and week of the calendar number) in all sites

Month	Week	Highland Park			New Forest			El Escorial			Manziana			Oliveto Lucano
Month	Week	Mean fly/p/h	Total catch	Mean male (%)	Mean fly/p/h	Total catch	Mean male (%)	Mean fly/p/h	Total catch	Mean male (%)	Mean fly/p/h	Total catch	Mean male (%)	Mean fly/p/h	Total catch	Mean male (%)
April	16							0	0
April	17										0	0
May	18	0	0		0	0		16	16	100	0	0		0	0
	19										0	0
	20	1.2	1	100	0	0		57	60	95	12	6	100	2	2	100
	21										2	1	100
	22	5	5	100				13	14	92.9	0	0		5	5	100
June	24	3	3	100	0	0		93	94	98.9	0	0		4	4	100
June	26	5	5	100	0	0		675	676	100	0	0
July	28	12	12	100	1.7	5	100	184	184	100	6	3	100	23	23	100
July	30	11	12	91.7	2.5	4	100	75	76	98.7	0	0		42	43	97.7
August	32	20	20	100	0	0		66	68	97.1	636	318	100	101	101	100
August	34	8	10	80	0	0		255	259	98.5	1320	660	100	539	542	99.4
September	36	42	43	97.7	0	0		377	385	97.9	352	176	100	280	281	100
	38	22	23	95.7	0	0		84	74	93.2	72	36	100	117	117	100
	39	1	1	100
October	40	0	0					170	254	66.9				8	9	88.9
	42	0	0					122	224	54.5	8	4	100	0	0
	43										0	0
	44	0	0					0	0					0	0
November	46							1	3	33.3	0	0		0	0
	47													0	0
	48							0	0
Total		9	135	96.3	0.4	9	100	141.3	2387	91	141.6	1204	100	75.1	1127	99.5

Abbreviations: Mean fly/p/h, mean number of flies per person per hour; total catch, total number of flies collected in the day of sampling; male %, percentage of males individual on the total of catches

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