TETRAPTER [ttr]
Lindsley & Grell, 1972, p. 253
location: 3-51.3.
discoverer: Tshetverikov, 25b.
references: Astaurov, 1929, Arch. Entwicklungsmech. Organ. 115: 424-47. 1930, Z. Induktive Abstammungs-Vererbungslehre 55: 183-262.
Timoféeff-Ressovsky, 1934, Z. Induktive Abstammungs-Vererbungslehre 67: 248 (fig.).
Villee, 1942, Univ. Calif. (Berkeley) Publ. Zool. 49: 180-81.
phenotype: Like bx. Halteres tend to become winglike. Most flies wild type but may have, in place of a haltere, an organ one-half the size of a normal wing with veins, bristles, and sense organs. RK3.
color figure: P. A. Otto (original)
b & w figure: Séguy, 1951, in Grassé, Traité de Zoologie, Masson, Paris (apud Jacobs & Renner, Biologie und Ökologie der Insekten, Fischer, Stuttgart, 1988)