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SEXUAL MOSAICS IN THE BLACK FLY SIMULIUM ARCTICUM (DIPTERA: SIMULIIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

F. J. H. Fredeen
F. J. H. Fredeen
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Saskatoon, Sask.
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Abstract

Eighteen sexual mosaics of S. arcticum including 16 distinct gynandromorphs and 2 apparent intersexes are described. These were discovered among 41,615 normal females from Athabasca, Alberta. Male and female terminalia are compared in four specimens possessing duplicates. Four specimens including two presumed intersexes and two which appeared to be normal males were parasitized with mermithid larvae.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 102 , Issue 12 , December 1970 , pp. 1585 - 1592
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1970

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