Systematics, morphology and physiology changes in the fat body during the post-embryonic development of the predator toxorhynchites theobaldi (dyar & knab) (diptera: Culicidae)

Neotropical Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 456-461

  Pascini, T V ^a   Albeny, D S ^a   Ramalho Ortigao M ^b   Vilela, E F ^a   Serrao J E ^a   Martins, G F ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Morphometry; Trophocyte

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; TOXORHYNCHITES; TOXORHYNCHITES THEOBALDI;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MOSQUITO;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FAT BODY; FEMALE; LARVA;

EID: 80053259450     PISSN: 1519566X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1519-566X2011000400008     Document Type: Article

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