MOUTHPARTS, ANTENNAE AND GENITALIA OF INTERSEX CULICOIDES STELLIFER PARASITIZED BY MERMITHID NEMATODES

Authors
MCKEEVER S BRICKLE DS HAGAN DV
Citation
S. Mckeever et al., MOUTHPARTS, ANTENNAE AND GENITALIA OF INTERSEX CULICOIDES STELLIFER PARASITIZED BY MERMITHID NEMATODES, Medical and veterinary entomology, 11(3), 1997, pp. 217-222
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Medical and veterinary entomology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0269283X
Volume
11
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
217 - 222
Database
ISI
SICI code
0269-283X(1997)11:3<217:MAAGOI>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
A 12-month study of Culicoides in Bulloch County, Georgia, U.S.A., rev ealed that twelve of 23,859 specimens (0.05%) of C. stellifer were int ersexes as a result of being parasitized by mermithid nematodes. Of th ese, eleven had male genitalia and female type antennae and one had fe male genitalia with male type antennae.