Analysis of the differences between Syntormon pallipes and S. pseudospicatus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): morphological and molecular data

M.A. Chursina & I.Ya. Grichanov

Abstract. The recent catalogues of the family Dolichopodidae considered Syntormon pallipes (Fabricius, 1794) and S. pseudospicatus Strobl, 1899 as separate species. In this study, we used three approaches to estimate the significance of differences between the two species: molecular analysis (COI and 12S rRNA sequences), analysis of leg colour characters and geometric morphometric analysis of wing shape. The morphological data confirmed the absence of significant differences between S. pallipes and S. pseudospicatus found in the DNA analysis. Significant differences in the wing shape of two species have not been revealed. Hence, according to our data, there is no reason to consider S. pseudospicatus as a distinct species.
Key words: morphology, mitochondrial DNA, ribosomal RNA, wing shape, Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Syntormon

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2019, 28(2): 305–316  ▪  Published online 27 December2019


https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2019.28.2.305  ▪  Open full article  

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