Núm. 76 (1999)
Notas científicas

Anormalidades en el aparato reproductor de una hembra de Onthophagus hirculus Mannh. (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

Imelda Martínez M
Instituto de Ecología, A.C.
Patricia González Vainer
Sección de Entomología. Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de la República. Tristan Narvaja 1674. 11200 Montevideo, URUGUAY
Enrique Morelli
Sección de Entomología. Facultad de Ciencias.Universidad de la República. Tristan Narvaja 1674. 11200 Montevideo, URUGUAY

Publicado 14-04-1999

Palabras clave

  • Scarabaeinae,
  • ovaries,
  • oviducts.

Cómo citar

Martínez M, I., González Vainer, P., & Morelli, E. (1999). Anormalidades en el aparato reproductor de una hembra de Onthophagus hirculus Mannh. (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). ACTA ZOOLÓGICA MEXICANA (N.S.), (76), 127–129. https://doi.org/10.21829/azm.1999.76761704

Resumen

Recent observations of a female of the species Onthophagus hirculus revealed 2 ovaries, with one ovariole for each, and two lateral oviducts. This structural arrangement is highly uncommon in the Scarabaeinae subfamily, a group in which the females present only a left ovary with one ovariole. These new anatomical observations and those of another three females in other Scarabaeinae genera -together with what is known about preimaginal development in this subfamily and the anatomy of Scarabaeoidea reproductive apparatus- can be considered evidence of the phylogenetic and ontogenetic process in this subfamily of reduction from 2 ovaries with 6 ovarioles each, to 1 ovary with 1 ovariole.