Scanning electron microscopy of male genitalia of Dermatobia hominis (Diptera: cuterebridae).
The male genitalia of Dermatobia hominis L. is described morphologically by the use of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and compared, under light microscopy, with other Cuterebridae D. hominis differes from Metacuterebra apicalis (Guérin-Méneville) because it has longer gonopods, shorter parameter, a small crest and spines on the distiphallus a bellshaped gonopore with a prominent external outline, and surstyli with a spatulate distal region.
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Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005837:Genitalia, Male / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning