[Taxacom] 2nd attempt to post something

[Robert Louis Zuparko]

All your comments are indeed useful/pertinent ... IF I was focusing on a
single species. The problem is, I'm not. My focus was on a genus has some
species with both males and females, but additionally has an indeterminate
number of species among which some are only known from males, and others
which are known only from females. I was looking for term that categorizes
these taxa.

It may well be there is no such term, and the phrase "species known from
only one sex" might be the best thing I can do.

Robert Zuparko
Essig Museum of Entomology
1101 Valley Life Sciences Building, #4780
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3112
(510) 643-0804


On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Prathapan Divakaran <prathapankd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Male unknown/female unknown
> On 04-Dec-2017 5:34 am, "Robert Louis Zuparko" <rz at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Last week I attempted to post the following, but for some reason it never
>> went through. I'd like to try again:
>>
>> Is there a term or short phrase to describe the taxonomic situation where
>> a
>> species (that presumably has both females and males) is known only from a
>> single sex? The best I can come up with is: "a species known only from a
>> single sex", which, at 8 words, seems too long and cumbersome. Is there
>> anything shorter available?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robert Zuparko
>> Essig Museum of Entomology
>> 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building, #4780
>> University of California
>> Berkeley, CA 94720-3112
>> (510) 643-0804
>>
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