Posted by viktor j nilsson on 13-01-2010 23:58
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Ouch, yeah this seems like a real mess. Now that you mention this I think I remember that I have read about this somewhere else on this forum. In Merz´s paper on the Fallén types I am intrigued to read that individuals of all three "species" are represented in Fallén´s type series of P, pallidiventris!
Would be really cool to look deeper into this variation - maybe this is a sign of an evolutionary arms race between the sexes in different populations, or if there are just loads of widespread variation in genital shape between three closely related species?
Edited by viktor j nilsson on 13-01-2010 23:59