Drosophila milleri Magalhães, 1962

Roman, Bruna Emilia & Madi-Ravazzi, Lilian, 2021, Male terminalia morphology of sixteen species of the Drosophila saltans group Sturtevant (Diptera, Drosophilidae), Zootaxa 5061 (3), pp. 523-544 : 535

Drosophila milleri Magalhães, 1962

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Non-type material. Strains MI-1 (El Yunque, Puerto Rico): 24 males dissected; and MI-2 ( French Guiana): 12 males dissected .

Male terminalia. The aedeagus is more similar to D. dacunhai , as it also presents pointed scales on the ventral postgonite, in addition to a groove in the upper part of it ( Fig. 11A–C ). The striking characteristic is that the ventral postgonite is wider than the other species in the subgroup ( Fig. 11B ).

Figures

FIGURE 11. Scanning electron micrographs of D. milleri male terminalia. (A) Ventral and dorsal view of terminalia (673 X magnification). (B) Lateral view of aedeagus (1.230 X magnification). Image from Madi-Ravazzi et al. (2021). (C) Dorsal view of aedeagus and middle ventral region of epandrium. Arrow heads = a groove in upper portion of ventral postgonite (1.210 X magnification). The imagens are from MI-2 strain. Abbreviations in Table 1.