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The Biology of Amblyomma dissimile Koch. With an Account of its Power of reproducing Parthenogenetically1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

G. E. Bodkin
Affiliation:
Government Economic Biologist, British Guiana.

Extract

Amblyomma dissimile Koch is well known to science and previous accounts of its biology have already appeared. Newstead (1909) made some observations on its habits in Jamaica. Hooker, Bishopp, and Wood (1912) give an exact account of its life cycle worked out in confinement in the Southern United States of America. These authors do not refer to the occurrence of parthenogenesis in this species.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1918

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