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Issue: Vol. 34 No. 2: August to September 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-09-30
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2022.34.2.4
Page range: 45–56
Abstract views: 1551
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Morphological comparison between a pair of wing-pigmented and non-pigmented sibling species of the genus Hirtodrosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with description of a new species from Western Himalaya

Fly Lab. Department of Zoology HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar-Garhwal, Chauras Campus–249161, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
Fly Lab. Department of Zoology HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar-Garhwal, Chauras Campus–249161, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
Fly Lab. Department of Zoology HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar-Garhwal, Chauras Campus–249161, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of Allahabad (A Central University), Pin – 211002, UP, INDIA.
Emeritus Professor, Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, N10 W8, Kita-ku, 060-0810 Sapporo, JAPAN.
Fly Lab. Department of Zoology HNB Garhwal University (A Central University) Srinagar-Garhwal, Chauras Campus–249161, Uttarakhand, INDIA.
phylogeny sympatry taxonomy Zygothrica genus group

Abstract

Hirtodrosophila fascipennis (Okada, 1967) and its closely related species, Hirtodrosophila pellucidipennis Bhardwaj, Khan & Fartyal, sp. nov., have been found in sympatry from Western Himalaya, India, and the latter is described here with detailed morphological comparison to the former. The most distinctive characteristic is that, while H. fascipennis has a distinct pattern of pigmentation on its wings, the new species lacks such wing pigmentation.

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