Uncovering tropical diversity: Six sympatric cryptic species of Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae) in flowers of Gurania spinulosa (Cucurbitaceae) in eastern Ecuador

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 779-797

  Condon, Marty ^a   Adams, Dean C ^b   Bann, Darrin ^c   Flaherty, Kacie ^a   Gammons, John ^a   Johnson, Jessica ^a   Lewis, Matthew L ^d   Marsteller, Sara ^a   Scheffer, Sonja J ^d   Serna, Francisco ^a   Swensen, Susan ^c  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship; Dioecy; Host specificity; Host use; mtDNA; Neotropics; Phytophagous insects; Reproductive isolation; Speciation; Wing pattern

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; COURTSHIP; DIOECY; FLOWER; FLY; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST USE; LARVA; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

BLEPHARONEURA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE; DIPTERA; GURANIA SPINULOSA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 40749096414     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00943.x     Document Type: Article

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