Ergatoid reproductives in Nasutitermes columbicus (Isoptera, Termitidae)
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Morphology
- Vol. 195 (1), 83-93
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jmor.1051950108
Abstract
Numerous functional ergatoid replacement reproductives were found in one colony of Nasutitermes columbicus in Panama. Their morphology was mainly workerlike, although several imaginal characters such as the compound eyes and variable wing buds were more or less developed. The sex organs were fully mature and the fat body of the females, not of the males, was of the “royal” type. The development of the eyes was not accompanied by the differentiation of the optic lobes of the brain, nor was the presence of wing buds correlated with a development of the wing muscles.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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