Fox A S, Brust R A
Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
J Med Entomol. 1994 Sep;31(5):738-46. doi: 10.1093/jmedent/31.5.738.
Rogue ovarioles were identified in laboratory-reared nulliparous and 1-parous Culex tarsalis Coquillett and in wild nulliparous C. tarsalis. Parity-diagnostic criteria were extrapolated from analysis of known nullipars and 1-pars. Diagnostic criteria were based, in part, on the number of ovarioles with no dilatation and a pedicel of greater than or equal to six adjacent cells. The high proportion of ovarioles lacking pedicels in known 1-pars and the small number of diagnostic ovarioles found in 2-pars support the findings of other researchers that ovulation destroys the pedicel and any previously formed dilatations.
