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Drosophila (Sophophora) dobzhanskii Patterson 1943

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Drosophila (Sophophora) dobzhanskii Patterson Figure 7E

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.

Notes

Published as part of Grimaldi, David A., 2024, The Drosophila (Sophophora) obscura species group in the Americas (Diptera: Drosophilidae): review, revisions, and three new species, pp. 1-44 in American Museum Novitates 2024 (4015) on page 25, DOI: 10.1206/4015.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12171426

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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.