title: Mouthparts, antennae and genitalia of intersex Culicoides stellifer parasitized by mermithid nematodes.
abstract: A 12-month study of Culicoides in Bulloch County, Georgia, U.S.A., revealed that twelve of 23,859 specimens (0.05%) of C.stellifer were intersexes as a result of being parasitized by mermithid nematodes. Of these, eleven had male genitalia and female type antennae and one had female genitalia with male type antennae.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McKeever
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Brickle
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Hagan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002519:Ceratopogonidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D005836:Genitalia, Female / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005837:Genitalia, Male / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005845:Georgia; D008297:Male; D008632:Mermithoidea / Q000502:physiology*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D012733:Sex Differentiation