Adult escapers have truncated bristles with transparent tips and thin transparent hairs and have dark brown patches with melanic patches in the corneal cuticle.
Cell viable in homozygous clones, which have truncated bristles with pale tips and pin-shaped trichomes with basal spurs and thin, transparent hairs. Useful as cell marker.
Homozygous semi-lethal as zygote (survival 2%); escapers have dark brown eyes and show tanning of cornea cuticle.