Wachstum und Sauerstoffverbrauch der Larven vonHypoderma bovis(De Geer) (Diptera, Hypodermatidae)

✍ Scribed by Gunther Nogge

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 612 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8549
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00393396

✦ Synopsis

At the end of their migration larvae of Hypoderma bovis have reached about 42% of their final length, but only 10% of their final body-weight. Oxygenium-consum/mg body-weight decreased during the larval development: a larva of 50 mg weight needs 800 mm/mg·h, one of 1500 mg weight only 100 mm/mg·h. Third instar larvae have a much higher oxygenium-consum after moulting than second instar larvae have just before. The relation of oxygenium-consum/body-weight differs in the two larval stages. Respiration depends on the temperature, its maximum is between 32°C and 37°C. Young animals have a higher maximum than old ones.