Zaluzianskya microsiphon

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales > Famliy: Scrophulariaceae

This species is the primary nectar food plant of a long-tongued fly called Prosoeca ganglbaueri (Diptera: Nemestrinidae). Anderson and Johnson (2008) found that the length of the fly's proboscis correlated strongly with the length of the flower's corolla tube across both their geographical ranges, suggesting that this relationship arose through coevolution.

Publications

• Anderson, B. and Johnson, S.D. 2008. The geographical mosaic of coevolution in a plant-pollinator mutualism. Evolution 62, 220–225.