Review Article
170 Years of “Lock-and-Key”: Genital Morphology and Reproductive Isolation
Table 1
Species hybridizations that display lock-and-key reproductive isolation.
| Order | Species hybridized | Lock-and-key mechanism | Reference(s) |
| Lepidoptera | Malacosoma franconica and M. neustria | Structural | Standfuss [15] | Deilephia porcellus and D. elpenor | Structural | Federley [16] | Erebia nivalis and E. cassioides | Sensory | Lorkovic [27] |
| Araneae | Misumenops rothi and M. gabrielensis | Structural | Schick [17] | Misumenops lepidus and M. californicus | Structural | Schick [17] |
| Coleoptera | Carabus iwawakianus and C. maiyasanus | Structural | Sota and Kubota [18] | Macrodactylus costulatus, M. sylphis, and M. sericinus | Sensory | Eberhard [3] |
| Polydesmida | Parafontaria tonominea sp. A and sp. B | Structural | Tanabe and Sota [21] |
| Zygoptera | Sympecma, Lestes (7 species total) | Sensory/structural | Loibl [31] | Ischnura elegans with Enallagma, Platycnemis, Sympecma, Lestes (various species) | Sensory/structural | Krieger and Krieger-Loibl [32] | Argia, Enallagma, Ischnura, Telebasis (10 species total) | Sensory/structural | Paulson [33] |
| Diptera | Drosophila santomea and D. yakuba | Structural | Kamimura and Mitsumoto [24] | Drosophila mauritiana, D. sechellia, and D. simulans |
Sensory | Robertson [42] | Cobb et al. [41] | Coyne [37] | Price et al. [40] | Jagadeeshan and Singh [38] |
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