Pr. Sharma et al., A light and electron microscopic study of the haemocytes of adult red cotton bug Dysdercus koenigii, BIOLOGIA, 53(6), 1998, pp. 759-764
Light and electron microscopic studies established the presence of five typ
es of haemocytes in Dysdercus koenigii F., namely the prohaemocyte, plasmat
ocyte, granular haemocyte, adipohaemocyte and the oenocytoid. In differenti
al counts, the maximum discernible cells were the plasmatocytes and the gra
nular haemocytes. The adipohaemocytes of this bug were unique in possessing
nucleolar ribosomes. A few of the adipohaemocytes and the oenocytoids were
characterized by two nuclei.