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

Drosophila kikkawai complex Tsacas & David

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

Drosophila kikkawai is one of a cluster of very similar species, including anomelani , barbarae , brevis , diplacantha , leontia , lini , mysorensis and pennae (the latter from Papua New Guinea), together they have been termed the “ kikkawai -complex” in a review by Tsacas & David (1978). Baimai (1979) added Drosophila bocki . 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”.