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 | |
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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
- 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).
- 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.
- 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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