![]() ![]() Depending on water temperature, the eggs hatch in 2 weeks to. Common hosts include crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, cockroaches, centipedes and millipedes. Adults mate in water and females lay long gelatinous strings of eggs. A distinctive larva hatches from the egg, which enters a host by ingestion or active penetration. Gordius dimorphus larvae are similar to previous light microscope descriptions. Life cycle Freshwater nematomorphs have a very uniform life cycle and separate sexes. One large spine is present on the posterior portion of the postseptum. On the surface of each projection, 3 pairs of aculeiforms spines are aligned and lean toward the proboscis opening. The proboscis is retractile, dorsoventrally flattened, with 1 pair of forceps-like projections on its distal-most portion. Three concentric rings with 6 spines each surround the proboscis. Larvae have a cylindrical body, annulated and divided into 2 sections, plus an anterior preseptum and a posterior postseptum. dimorphus (2 males and 1 female) were maintained under laboratory conditions until oviposition, which occurred within long strings commonly referred to as egg strings. ![]() Scanning electron microscopy was used to analyze superficial features of Gordius dimorphus Poinar, 1991, larvae that might serve as generic or specific diagnostic characters. ![]()
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