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Issue: Vol. 1211 No. 1: 24 May. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-05-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1211.1.1
Page range: 1–19
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 2

A description of a new species of Diasemopsis (Diptera, Diopsidae) from the Comoro Islands with morphological, molecular and allometric data

Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5YW, UK
The Galton Laboratory, Department of Biology, University College London, 4 Stephenson Way, London, NW1 2HE, UK
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u.13, H–1088 Budapest, Hungary
Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstr. 21, München D–81247, Germany
Diptera Diopsidae Diasemopsis Comoro Islands new species morphological description genitalia eye span allometry molecular phylogeny

Abstract

A new specie s of Diasemopsis (Diptera, Diopsidae ) from Comoro Islands is described and illustrated for the first time wi th a llometric datasets . Diasemopsis comoroensis Carr & Földvár i is shown t o be genetically close, but morphologically distinct from th e widesprea d Afro-tropical species D. meigenii (Westwood); notably a significant dive rgence in the degree of sexual dimorphism within eye spa n has occurre d between the two species. A revised molecula r phylogeny of th e genus Diasemopsis is presente d based on the partial sequenc es of four genes.

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