Drosophila (Sophophora) dobzhanskii Patterson 1943
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Drosophila (Sophophora) dobzhanskii Patterson 1943: 82.
DIAGNOSIS: Distinctive for the large ♂ sex comb, having ~18 teeth on ta1, on ta2 a “single tooth...little more than enlarged bristle” (Patterson, 1943: 82). Notum and pleuron coffee brown, acrostichals in 6 rows; oviscapt with ovisensilla along ventral margin setiform, not pegs; spermatheca without apical indentation.
TYPES: Holotype, ♂: Mexico: “collected July 1942, just west of Mexico City by G.B. Mainland ” (Patterson, 1943: 82). In USNM; examined but not dissected.
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Besides type (above): 2♀♀: MEXICO: Desietrode de los Leones, Distrito Federal IV/29/42, G.B. Mainland 1342.1/ PARATYPE dobzhanskii (in AMNH), 1 ♀ dissected (ASG33).
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type series.
COMMENTS: I have not dissected a male specimen, but the female has a distinctive oviscapt, as described above.
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.12171461 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1206/4015.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/12171426 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFBE4D63FFFDFFB9F7345809FFBBFF97 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/0387351BFFE5FFA1F6B45B2DFEEBFA16 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMNH , USNM
- Material sample ID
- ASG33
- Scientific name authorship
- Patterson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Drosophilidae
- Genus
- Drosophila
- Species
- dobzhanskii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Drosophila (Sophophora) dobzhanskii Patterson, 1943 sec. Grimaldi, 2024
References
- Patterson, J. T. 1943. Studies in the genetics of Drosophila. III. The Drosophilidae of the southwest. University of Texas Publications 4313: 1 - 216.