Friday, September 12, 2008

Great Breakthrough

Right when you stop looking for characters they jump out at you. Yesterday, while trying to draw the lateral view of the male genitalia I found a second character to distinguish Euphylidorea olympica (we will call it this for now) which I now agree with Alexander that it is a valid species, from "Euphylidorea burdicki". I'm not sure what to call the structure (likely some sort of apodeme) so we'll have to wait on describing it. I can draw it though and it's consistent in those specimens where I can see the structure. Time will tell if the molecular data supports the morphological data. The unfortunate aspect is that I only have one specimen in alcohol of the E. olympica species. Back to drawing...

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