Chromosomal and reproductive features of some Oriental and Australasian scale insects (Homoptera, Coccinea)
Author
Gavrilov-Zimin, Ilya A.
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
coccids@gmail.com
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Comparative Cytogenetics
2020
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3
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v14i3.53367
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v14i3.53367
1993-078X-3-339
D2A1B8A1B2EE42518F3666B295BA1B73
2CD35BDCEE2B569795486A48059CE160
Drepanococcus chiton (Green, 1909)
Fig. 4
Material.
K 864, Indonesia, New Guinea, vicinity of Jayapura, Entrop, on stem of a dicotyledonous herb, 30.X. 2011, I.A. Gavrilov-Zimin.
New data.
There were no embryonic cells suitable for chromosomal analysis in the available material. The reproduction is bisexual with a Lecanoid heterochromatinization in male embryos. All studied females contained embryos at early stages of embryogenesis (up to anatrepsis). Female reproductive system has the usual structure (Fig.
4
).
Comments.
The only other species of the genus,
D. cajani
(Maskell, 1891), was previously studied cytogenetically by
Moharana (1990)
, who reported 2n = 18 with no other comments on the species.