Morphometric patterns in hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae)
- 22 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences
- Vol. 224 (1234) , 79-90
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1985.0022
Abstract
Multivariate techniques are used to elucidate the main patterns of variation in morphology between and within species. The major difference between species lies in proboscis length relative to body size, and only secondarily in aspects of body size uncorrelated with this. Within species, sexual dimorphism is associated with differences in abdomen width, and variation between individuals of one sex is predominantly of size differences.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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