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Provedor de dados: | Biota Neotropica
País: | Brazil
Título: | Morphological aspects of the testes of 18 species of terrestrial of Heteroptera from Northwestern São Paulo (Brazil)
Autores: | Gomes,Mariana Oliveira; Castanhole,Márcia Maria Urbanin; Souza,Hederson Vinicius de; Murakami,Aline Sumitani; Firmino,Tatiani Seni de Souza; Saran,Priscila Samara; Banho,Cecilia Artico; Monteiro,Leticia da Silva; Silva,Jocielly Cristina Pereira da; Itoyama,Mary Massumi.
Data: | 2013-09-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Testicles; Peritoneal sheath; Lobes.
Resumo: | The Heteroptera are known for their odour, for being pests or for being disease carriers. However, they are still not extensively studied, perhaps because they form a very large group. Therefore, with the aim of enhancing the knowledge of the morphology of the testes of this insect order, we collected and analysed 18 species of terrestrial Heteroptera from the northwestern part of São Paulo. The analysis of these species revealed some differences between the testicles of these species, including their shape (elongated, oval, round or pecten), the morphology of the testicular lobes (elongated and paired side by side or united in a single region), the colours of the peritoneal sheath that surrounds the lobes (red, orange, yellow or translucent), and the number of testicular lobes (one, two, four, five, six or seven). Because the aspects analysed were highly variable, our study suggests a need for further analysis of Heteropteran testicular morphological differences.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032013000300131
Editor: | Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP
Relação: | 10.1590/S1676-06032013000300016
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Biota Neotropica  v.13 n.3 2013
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess