Abstract
In the outskirts of Santiago, Chile (La Florida), collections of drosophilids were performed every month from 1984 to 1991. Some of the species are cosmopolitan, like D. melanogaster and D. simulans, or subcosmopolitan, like D. subobscura. A few others are endemics, like D. pavani and some Scaptomyza. The population sizes of all the species show annual and monthly periodic fluctuations, detected by autocorrelations analyses, excepting D. melanogaster, that exhibits very weak monthly correlations. This seems to indicate that D. melanogaster is weakly coupled to periodic phenomena that are acting on the rest of the drosophilid fauna. Furthermore, biogeographic categories, like cosmopolitan, or subcosmopolitan, or endemic species, are of very little importance when applied to single localities, since species cluster irrespective of them being endemic or cosmopolitan.
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