[Taxacom] if not Wolbachia, what could be the reason?

[Soowon Cho]

Dear members,

There is an epipyropid moth species that is a parasite of cicada in Korea
and Japan, and the main difference is that the Japanese species is
monosexual? (only females) while I could collect both males and females of
this species in Korea.  The genetic difference in COI is around 2% which is
not strong enough to say they are two different species. I investigated for
a possible Wolbachia infection but none of them has been infected. Now, I
wonder what could be the reason that they have very differnt male:female
proportion. Could you please give me an advice? Any further experiement need
to be done?

Sincerely,

-- 
Soowon Cho
chosoowon at gmail.com
Dept Plant Medicine
Chungbuk Nat'l Univ
Cheongju, 361-763
KOREA