Courtship in Drosophila Mosaics: Sex-Specific Foci for Sequential Action Patterns [PDF]
, 1976 Mosaic fate mapping is used to locate the foci determining sex-specific steps in the mating behavior of Drosophila. Male performance of following females and displaying wing vibration toward them requires that a focus inside the head be constituted of ...
Benzer, Seymour, Hotta, Yoshiki
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A review of the genus Megalographa Lafontaine and Poole (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Plusiinae) with the description of a new species from Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2009 The classification of the genus Megalographa Lafontaine and Poole, 1991, is reviewed and the five known species diagnosed. The genus is essentially restricted to the New World, although one species M.
Lafontaine, J. Donald +1 more
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Female genitalia can evolve more rapidly and divergently than male genitalia
Nature Communications, 2019 Although male genital shape is known to evolve rapidly in response to sexual selection, relatively little is known about the evolution of female genital shape.
Leigh W. Simmons, John L. Fitzpatrick
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Phylogenetic Revision of Eryphanis Boisduval, with a Description of a New Species from Ecuador (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) [PDF]
, 2008 This study provides a species-level phylogeny for the Neotropical brassoline genus Eryphanis Boisduval based on 43 morphological characters. A revised generic definition is given.
Penz, Carla M.
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The evolution of female genitalia [PDF]
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2019 AbstractFemale genitalia have been largely neglected in studies of genital evolution, perhaps due to the long‐standing belief that they are relatively invariable and therefore taxonomically and evolutionarily uninformative in comparison with male genitalia.
Nadia S. Sloan, Leigh W. Simmons
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Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea) [PDF]
, 2002 Fifty-one species are recognized in the genus Paurocephala, with an additional 14 species which remain unnamed. Thirty-five species are described as new, and five species are synonymized: P. pumilae and P. zhejiangensis with P.
Burckhardt, Daniel, Mifsud, David
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Two new species of the subfamily Phycitinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from West Kazakhstan [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2019 Asalebria (Exophora) vernalis sp. n. and Gymnancyla subgilvella sp. n. are described from Atyrau and Mangistau Regions of Kazakhstan. Male and female genitalia of these species are illustrated. Asalebria (Exophora) vernalis sp. n.
E.V. Tsvetkov
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ZooKeys, 2012 Seasogonia Young, 1986 is a sharpshooter genus with 13 species, four of them recorded from China. In this paper, S. sandaracata (Distant, 1908) is recorded as new for China and S.
Zehong Meng, Maofa Yang
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Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 2015 The diagnosis and management of a child with ambiguous genitalia and severe variety of urogenital sinus with a high vesico-vaginal confluence is challenging.
Sajni I Khemchandani
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Two new species of the genus Tsauria Koçak & Kemal (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae) from China, with descriptions of female genitalia of three species [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 Two new species of cixiid planthoppers genus Tsauria Koçak & Kemal, Tsauria brevispina Zhi & Chen, sp. nov. and T. longispina Zhi & Chen, sp. nov., are described and illustrated from China and T. transspinus (Zhang & Chen,
Yan Zhi +3 more
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