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The Teratoid Larva of Polyembryonic Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Richard L. Doutt
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Control, University of California

Extract

One very extraordinary phase in the development of certain polyembryonic encyrtids is the production of a precocious larval form. This anomaly appears while its normal sibs are still in an early embryonic stage of development, and although it leads an active parasitic life within the host it never succeeds in developing beyond the larval stage.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1952

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