Drosophila prolongata explained

Drosophila prolongata commonly referred to as the panda fly, is a fly of the family Drosophilidae. This species is endemic to southeast Asia.^[1] Males of this species express one of the most extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism (i.e. males are larger than females) in the Drosophilidae,^[2] making this species an interesting model organism for the study of sexual selection. Males also display remarkable copulation courtship behaviour.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Singh, B. K., & Gupta, J. P. (1977). Two new and two unrecorded species of the genus Drosophila Fallen (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of India (Vol. 30, pp. 31–38).
2. Rohner, P. T., Pitnick, S., Blanckenhorn, W. U., Snook, R. R., Bächli, G., & Lüpold, S. (2018). Interrelations of global macroecological patterns in wing and thorax size, sexual size dimorphism, and range size of the Drosophilidae. Ecography, 41(10), 1707–1717.
3. Setoguchi, S., Takamori, H., Aotsuka, T., Sese, J., Ishikawa, Y., & Matsuo, T. (2014). Sexual dimorphism and courtship behavior in Drosophila prolongata. Journal of Ethology, 32(2), 91–102.