Nematode-induced demasculinisation of Dolichopus males (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
Author
Kahanpää, Jere
text
Zootaxa
2008
1689
51
62
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.180614
549e79e9-bf81-4d14-9633-8af319a5c9dd
1175-5326
180614
Dolichopus discimanus
Wahlberg, 1851
Dolichopus discimanus
Wahlberg, 1851
: 301
Dolichopus mucronatus
Becker, 1917
: 147
Dolichopus mucronatus
is known only from
Sweden
(
Negrobov 1991
,
Pollet 2006
). According to the original description, it has all the typical features of a demasculinised male: very small male genitalia, a broad face and weakly developed secondary sexual characters (
Becker 1917
).
Ringdahl (1949)
and
Grichanov (2004)
treated
D. mucronatus
as an aberrant form of
D. discimanus
Wahlberg. It
is likely that this synonymy is correct.