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. 1997 Jul;11(3):217-22.
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1997.tb00399.x.

Mouthparts, antennae and genitalia of intersex Culicoides stellifer parasitized by mermithid nematodes

S McKeever  1 , D S Brickle, D V Hagan
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Mouthparts, antennae and genitalia of intersex Culicoides stellifer parasitized by mermithid nematodes

S McKeever et al. Med Vet Entomol. 1997 Jul.

Abstract

A 12-month study of Culicoides in Bulloch County, Georgia, U.S.A., revealed that twelve of 23,859 specimens (0.05%) of C.stellifer 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.

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