Dolichopus imperfectus Van Duzee, 1921: 240

Runyon, Justin B., 2022, Nematode-induced demasculinization of Nearctic Dolichopodidae (Diptera) with five new synonyms, Zootaxa 5092 (5), pp. 545-558 : 555

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.5.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5896411
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scientific name	Dolichopus imperfectus Van Duzee, 1921: 240
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Dolichopus imperfectus Van Duzee, 1921: 240 View in CoL

Potential demasculinized species: unknown.

Dolichopus imperfectus was described from one male collected in Illinois, USA. Although the face is “rather narrow”, the hypopygium is unlike any other in Dolichopus being very small with what appears to be rudiments of cerci ( Van Duzee et al. 1921, fig. 176). Such poorly developed genitalia could be caused by nematode infection .