Are sex ratio distorting endosymbionts responsible for mating system variation among dance flies (Diptera: Empidinae)? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Maternally inherited bacterial endosymbionts are common in many arthropod species. Some endosymbionts cause female-biased sex ratio distortion in their hosts that can result in profound changes to a host's mating behaviour and reproductive biology. Dance
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Mating and Sexual Selection in Empidine Dance Flies (Empididae) [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Species whose behaviour or morphology diverges from typical patterns can provide unique insights on the evolutionary forces that promote diversity. Darwin recognised that while elaborate sexually selected traits mostly occurred among males, in a few ...
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Sexual Selection on Multiple Female Ornaments in Dance Flies [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Sex-specific ornaments typically occur in males, but they can also develop in females. While there are several models concerning the evolution of male-specific ornaments, it is not clear how, or under what circumstances, those models apply to female-specific ornament evolution. Here, we present a manipulative field experiment that explores
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High endemicity in aquatic dance flies of Corsica, France (Diptera, Empididae, Clinocerinae and Hemerodromiinae), with the description of a new species of Chelipoda [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 All known records of aquatic dance flies (Empididae, Clinocerinae: 21 species; Hemerodromiinae: eight species) from the island of Corsica (France) are summarized, including previously unpublished data and data on the newly described species Chelipoda ...
Marija Ivković +3 more
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Aquatic dance flies (Diptera, Empididae, Clinocerinae and Hemerodromiinae) of Greece: species richness, distribution and description of five new species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2017 All records of aquatic dance flies (37 species in subfamily Clinocerinae and 10 species in subfamily Hemerodromiinae) from the territory of Greece are summarized, including previously unpublished data and data on five newly described species (Chelifera ...
Marija Ivković +3 more
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A remarkable long-antennate new species of Lamprempis Wheeler & Melander (Diptera, Empididae, Empidinae) from the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2023 Lamprempis Wheeler & Melander, 1901 is a Neotropical genus of dance flies with 24 described species. Here we describe and illustrate a new species collected in the Amazonian Brazilian states of Amapá, Amazonas, and Pará, L. amazonida sp. nov.
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2023 Scelolabes, historically is a monotypic genus of Ocydromiinae (Hybotidae) that for a long time was not studied due to the absence of the type of the type species (Scelolabes bivittatus Philippi), which is probably lost or destroyed.
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The Tongue, The Gong and the Song: Olú Ọbáfẹ́mi at 70
Yoruba Studies Review, 2021 Now that the bird of songs dazzles us as it flies in the sky, let us clap our hands and pay homage to the carrier of our country’s light. In the tribe of words, the calabash of wisdom never misses. From the streets of this land to the world across, those
Toyin Falola
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 Chvalaea australis sp. nov. is described and illustrated, representing the first species of Chvalaea Papp & Földvári, 2002 from the Australasian Region.
Luana Machado Barros +3 more
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A new genus of dance fly (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotidae) from Cretaceous Spanish ambers and introduction to the fossiliferous amber outcrop of La Hoya (Castellón Province, Spain) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Hybotidae fly species, also known as dance flies, in Cretaceous ambers have been described from Lebanon, France, Myanmar, Russia, and Canada. Here we describe Grimaldipeza coelica gen. et sp.
Mónica M. Solórzano-Kraemer +3 more
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