Drosophila kikkawai

Schiffer, Michele & Mcevey, Shane F., 2006, Drosophila bunnanda — a new species from northern Australia with notes on other Australian members of the montium subgroup (Diptera: Drosophilidae), Zootaxa 1333, pp. 1-23 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.174253
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6262701
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scientific name	Drosophila kikkawai
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Drosophila kikkawai View in CoL complex Tsacas & David

Drosophila kikkawai complex—Tsacas & David, 1978 [1977], Annls. Soc. Ent. Fr. 13(4), p. 689

Drosophila kikkawai View in CoL is one of a cluster of very similar species, including anomelani View in CoL , barbarae View in CoL , brevis View in CoL , diplacantha View in CoL , leontia View in CoL , lini View in CoL , mysorensis View in CoL and pennae View in CoL (the latter from Papua New Guinea), together they have been termed the “ kikkawai View in CoL -complex” in a review by Tsacas & David (1978). Baimai (1979) added Drosophila bocki View in CoL . Tsacas & David (1978) describe males of the complex as having “sex comb on the first two segments of the foreleg tarsi very long, occupying the entire length of the segment; secondary clasper fused or attached to anal plate via membranous connection: secondary clasper with 2 very large subequal, or one large and one smaller above, black median teeth; no strong teeth on the anal plate; phallus slender, bare, or rarely hirsute , apically recurved dorsally; caudal margin of novasternum with strong, generally slender, median convexity and a pair of close submedian spines which are usually long; posterior parameres long, slender often reaching the tip of phallus”.