Unsupervised learning for detection of possible sexual dimorphism in larvae of Belgica antarctica Jacobs (Diptera, Chironomidae)

• Main Authors: Kovalenko, Pavlo, Serga, Svitlana, Einor, Daniel, Gorobchyshyn, Volodymyr, Trokhymets, Vladlen, Protsenko, Oleksandra, Kozeretska, Iryna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Masaryk Univerzity 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic midge; polar insect; sexual dimorphism; Antarctic Peninsula; head capsule; morphometry; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Petermann Island; Wilhelm Archipelago; Antarc*; Antarctica; Belgica antarctica
• Online Access: https://journals.muni.cz/CPR/article/view/25395

Belgica antarctica is one of the two native chironomid species of the Antarctic Peninsula. In this species, adult males and females are considerably different, yet the question of larval sex differences in morphometric parameters remains unanswered. In this paper, we analyze five morphometric parame...