McKeever S, Brickle D S, Hagan D V
Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA.
Med Vet Entomol. 1997 Jul;11(3):217-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1997.tb00399.x.
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.
在美国佐治亚州布洛赫县对库蠓进行的一项为期12个月的研究表明,在23859个斯氏库蠓标本中,有12个(0.05%)因被索线虫寄生而成为雌雄间性个体。其中,11个具有雄性生殖器和雌性类型的触角,1个具有雌性生殖器和雄性类型的触角。