Genesis of the reproductive system of mosquitoes. III. Supernumerary male genitalia

✍ Scribed by Frank Ray Voorhees; William R. Horsfall

• Book ID: 102903842
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 900 KB
• Volume: 133
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0362-2525
• DOI: 10.1002/jmor.1051330404

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The origin of supernumerary gonapophyses in a polymorphic variant of Aedes stimulans has been determined histologically. Genotypic males (Mm) will develop gonapophyses on abdominal segment 8 when primordia on the larvae are subjected to a high‐to‐low thermal regimen. The gonapophyses develop from the normally evanescent podal buds of the eighth imaginal disc. Their course of development is similar to that of the normal gonapophyses that arise from the podal buds of the ninth imaginal disc.