The Heterogynidae are a small family of moths consisting of a single genus and sixteen described species distributed in the Mediterranean region. A species new to science, sp. nov.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolyembryonic development is a unique mode of metazoan development in which a single zygote generates multiple embryos by clonal proliferation. The polyembryonic parasitic insect Copidosoma floridanum shows one of the most extreme cases of polyembryony, producing up to 2,000 embryos from a single egg. In addition, this wasp exhibits an unusual polyphenism, producing two morphologically distinct larval castes, termed precocious and reproductive, that develop clonally from the same zygote.
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