Drosophila prolongata

Drosophila prolongata is a fly of the family Drosophilidae. This species is endemic to southeast Asia.[1] Males of this species express one of most extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism (i.e. males are larger than females) in the Drosophilidae,[2] making this species an interesting model organism for the study of sexual selection. Males also display remarkable copulation courtship behaviour.[3]

Drosophila prolongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Drosophilidae
Genus: Drosophila
Species:
D. prolongata
Binomial name
Drosophila prolongata
(Singh and Gupta, 1977)

References

  1. Singh, B. K., & Gupta, J. P. (1977). Two new and two unrecorded species of the genus Drosophila Fallen (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of India (Vol. 30, pp. 31–38).
  2. Rohner, P. T., Pitnick, S., Blanckenhorn, W. U., Snook, R. R., Bächli, G., & Lüpold, S. (2018). Interrelations of global macroecological patterns in wing and thorax size, sexual size dimorphism, and range size of the Drosophilidae. Ecography, 41(10), 1707–1717.
  3. Setoguchi, S., Takamori, H., Aotsuka, T., Sese, J., Ishikawa, Y., & Matsuo, T. (2014). Sexual dimorphism and courtship behavior in Drosophila prolongata. Journal of Ethology, 32(2), 91–102.
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