Open AccessNOTES ON THE PUPAL BEHAVIOUR AND COLLECTION OF LARVAE AND PUPAE OF SOME AUSTRALIAN CULICOIDES (DIPTERA: CERATOPOGONIDAE)
Author(s) -
Dyce A. L.,
Murray M. D.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1966.tb00674.x
Subject(s) - pupa , ceratopogonidae , biology , larva , voltinism , ecology , burrow , zoology , culicoides
Three distinct patterns of behaviour of pupae of aquatic Culicoides species are described. Pupae of some species float to the surface in water and are unable to submerge, whereas those of other species repeatedly rise to the surface and then sink. In another species the pupae do not float but actively burrow back into the substratum when dislodged. A short discussion of methods for the recovery and rearing of these immature stages is included.