[Studies on the systematic status of a new species of Drosophila (sophophora)--from morphological to molecular level].
Bock and Wheeler (1972) reviewed the Drosophila melanogaster species group in which more than 70 species were classified into a number of subgroups. One of them is the takahashii species subgroup which is a large subgroup with 12 species. We collected many specimens of drosophilid fly in Mt. Huaping, Guangxi Province and Mt. Siming, Zhejiang Province in 1983, among which taxon A and taxon B were thought to be a new species, belonging to the takahashii subgroup and named as D. liui sp. n. However, after Prof. T. Okada examined this new species, he thought it is the same as the known species D. nepalensis Okada, 1955 from Nepal and later Dr. J. Toda examined the same species and thought it was the known species D. prostipennis Lin, in Bock and Wheeler 1972 from Taiwan and/or D. trilutea Bock and Wheeler 1972 from Borneo, so that D. liui sp. n. is considered as the species incertae sedis. In the present paper, we studied 6 species of this subgroup: D. takahashii, D. lutescens, D. liui sp. n., D. nepalensis, D. prostipennis and D. trilutea. Our studies from morphological to molecular level provided the evidences which can support the description of a new species, hence we draw the conclusion that D. liui sp. n. is a new member of the takahashii subgroup.
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Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai.
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D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000032:analysis; D007621:Karyotyping
D007527:Isoenzymes