Repositories of Symbiotic Fungus in the Ambrosia Beetle Platypus wilsoni Swaine (Coleoptera: Platypodidae)
- 31 May 1965
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 97 (5) , 527-532
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent97527-5
Abstract
Stained sections of female adult Platypus wilsoni Swaine showed that the punctures concentrated on the caudal half of the pronotum are fungus pits or mycangia. A fungus resembling Tuberculariella sp. was cultured from this area. Mycangia were not found in male adults.Keywords
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