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Estimation of the interval between feeding and capture in peridomestic Glossina tachinoides
Author(s) -
MADUBUNYI L. CHUKA
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
medical and veterinary entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2915
pISSN - 0269-283X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1989.tb00238.x
Subject(s) - biology , trophic level , midgut , ecology , zoology , larva
. From successive 24‐hourly dissections of non‐teneral field‐caught Glossina tachinoides Westwood which had fed on a guinea‐pig in the laboratory, the progressive movement of a bloodmeal through the midgut was monitored and five stages (categories) in the trophic cycle identified. The frequency distribution in these trophic categories of G. tachinoides subsequently caught in the peridomestic agro‐ecosystem at Orie‐Orba near Nsukka by means of the biconical trap revealed that males and females had fed 2.8±0.4 and 2.4±0.4 days respectively preceding their capture.