Acknowledgement
This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR), funded by the Ministry of Environment of (MOE) of the Republic of Korea (NIBR202407101). We thank Dr. Gerhard Bachli (University of Zurich) for his help to check drosophilid literature. We are grateful to the members of Biology Faculty, Chemistry and Environment Faculty of Dalat University for providing an intellectually inspiring environment for this research.
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