Species identification of livefood flightless fly () through DNA barcoding.

as it is called in Japanese, is a flightless sp. that is sold commercially in Japan. This sp. is often used as feeds for model organisms such as reptiles and spiders. There is no scientific name provided for the fruit fly that is known as , as well as any historical background or data behind this species. There has been a previous study that was conducted through morphological characteristics analysis of the body as well as the male copulatory organ and has been estimated as The objective of this study was to determine the species of this unidentified fly known as based on a molecular evidence with a DNA barcoding. Samples were purchased from four separate suppliers to examine whether there are any differences between them. COI regions were amplified using PCR and the sequenced results were aligned against two databases, NCBI and BOLD. samples provided from all suppliers were confirmed to be .