OnBraula coecaNitsch and its affinities
- 1 May 1942
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Parasitology
- Vol. 34 (1) , 88-100
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000016012
Abstract
The developmental stages ofBraula coecaare described. The larva is an inquiline living in a tubular burrow which it makes by mining on the inner side of the capping of the honey cells in the comb of the hive bee. It is meta-pneustic and bears characteristic anterior and posterior girdles of sensoria.The pupa is apparently unique among Cyclorrhapha in that it is enclosed within the unmodified cuticle of the 3rd instar larva, no puparium being formed. It is suggested that this feature is a degenerative change owing to the cessation of a particular phase of hormone activity.The similarity of form and structure shown by the larvae ofBraulaand of the Chamaemyiidae (Ochthiphilidae) is indicative of a fundamentally close relationship. Their imagines on the other hand have undergone widely divergent evolution.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Zwei forstentornologisch wichtige FliegenZeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie, 2009
- Studien über die Bienenlaus (Braula coeca Nitzsch, Diptera)Zeitschrift Fur Parasitenkunde-Parasitology Research, 1938
- Observations on the biology and larvae of the anthomyidaeParasitology, 1937
- A Revision of the Subfamilies of the Streblidae and the Genera of the Subfamily Streblinae (Diptera Acalypterae) including a Redescription of Metelasmus pseudopterus Coquillett and a Description of Two New Species from AfricaParasitology, 1936
- A hormone causing pupation in the blowfly calliphora erythrocephalaProceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences, 1935
- Studies on the waxmoth, Galleria mellonella, with particular reference to the digestion of wax by the larvaeJournal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, 1933
- Preliminary Studies of the Internal Structures of Braula Coeca Nitzsch.*Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1931
- The bee-louse, Braula coeca, in the United States /Published by Smithsonian Institution ,1925
- ONBRAULA CAECA, NITZSCH, A DIPTEROUS PARASITE OF THE HONEY BEETransactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 1922
- Forest Insects in IllinoisIllinois Natural History Survey Bulletin, 1921