Autor(es): Spielman A; Leahy M G; Skaff V

Resumo: Female Aedes aegypti mated somewhat less readily at 1 day than at several days after ecdysis and retained genital contact more briefly. Semen was generally present in the genital atrium after mating but was absent from the copulatory bursa of the younger females. Such young females frequently became separated from the males when frozen during mating, but when contact was retained the bursae were usually filled. Bursae of 5-day-old females were more distended during mating than were those of females at 1 day of age and this may have been due to a change in the physical properties of the seminal mass. A clear fluid which accumulated in the bursa during the second day after ecdysis appeared to be responsible for this change. Previously mated females resembled day-old females in each of these traits. These observations demonstrated that females were inseminated during mating regardless of age or mating status but that only mature females, mated for the first time, retained semen effectively

Imprenta: Journal of Insect Physiology, v. 15, n. 9, p. 1471-1479, 1969

Identificador do objeto digital: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1910(69)90168-1

Descritores: Aedes aegypti - Sexual

Data de publicação: 1969