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Pinheiro, Rodrigo Almeida, dos Santos Cabral, Maria Jéssica, Giordani, Samuel Cunha Oliveira, Zanuncio, José Cola, Serrão, José Eduardo, dos Santos, Conceição Aparecida, Soares, Marcus Alvarenga |
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Neotropical Entomology; December 2024, Vol. 53 Issue: 6 p1374-1378, 5p |
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Bedellia somnulentellaZeller, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Bedelliidae), a global pest of the sweet potato Ipomoea batatas, was recorded in Brazil, but morphological information on the sexual dimorphism of this insect is scarce. The objective was to evaluate morphological characters of sexual dimorphism of B. somnulentellapupae and adults. External structures with sexual dimorphism were not detected in the last abdominal segments of B. somnulentellapupae. The females of this insect are heavier, which could be a distinctive sex characteristic. A pair of frenulum on the hind wings of females and only one on those of males, in addition to elongated cerci and bipartite genitalia in the latter and smaller cerci involving the last abdominal segment and an ovipositor in females, differentiate sexes of B. somnulentella. |
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