| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1974 |
| Authors: | E. M. Bosler, Hansens E. J. |
| Journal: | Annals of the Entomological Society of America |
| Volume: | 67 |
| Pagination: | 321-324 |
| Date Published: | 1974 |
| Keywords: | New Jersey, Reproduction, Sugar Feeding, Tabanidae, Tabanus nigrovittatus, USA |
| Abstract: | Females of Tabanus nigrovittatus Macq. collected on a ditched tidal saltmarsh and adjacent upland at Leeds Point, New Jersey, were found to be autogenous during the first ovarian cycle. Fat-body from the larval stage was depleted with the maturation of the follicles during the first ovarian cycle. Following the initial oviposition, parous females entered ovarian diapause, and the second ovarian cycle was gonotrophically concordant. Feeding on both blood and nectar sugars by the females was noted. Blood was directed to the midgut and sugars to the crop [cf. RAE/B 58, 1554]. The females of this species feed primarily on large mammals but only parous females imbibe blood. Sugars are not directly responsible for follicular maturation. |
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