Mouthparts, antennae and genitalia of intersex Culicoides stellifer parasitized by mermithid nematodes
Medical and Veterinary Entomology · Volume 11, Issue 3 (1997) · pp. 217–222
Abstract
<jats:p><jats:bold>Abstract</jats:bold> A 12‐month study of <jats:italic>Culicoides</jats:italic> in Bulloch County, Georgia, U.S.A., revealed that twelve of<jats:bold>23</jats:bold>,859 specimens (0.05%) of <jats:italic>C.stellifer</jats:italic> were intersexes as a result of being parasitized by mermithid nematodes. Of these, eleven had male genitalia and female type antennae and one had female genitalia with male type antennae.</jats:p>