Post-embrionic development of the digestive tube of Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus) (Diptera, Cuterebridae)

Vieira, Ana Maria; Lello, Edy de

doi:10.1590/S0101-81751996000400024

Abstract

The digestive tube of 2nd and 3rd instar larvae, pupae and newly emerged adults of Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus, 1781) was studied anatomically. The specimens were dissected in buffer saline under a stereomicroscope, and the digestive tubes were placed on slides and fixed in 10% buffered formalin. Each tube was measured using a micrometric eye piece, and drawings were made with camera lucida. The results showed that the midgut, the hindgut and the Malpighian tubules with their ducts grow gradually during the larval development. The oesophagus and the salivary glands with their ducts grow only during the moult from the 2nd to the 3rd instar. In the pupal period, salivary glands grow gradually but disappeared after the 20th day. After metamorphosis the digestive tube regressed. This is expected since adult D. hominis lives about nine days without feeding. This fly, similar to other calyptratae muscoid flies shows no vestige of a crop during all post-embrionic development, and the adult has no salivary glands.

Dermatobia hominis; digestive tube; anatomy; post-embrionic development

Post-embrionic development of the digestive tube of Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus) (Diptera, Cuterebridae)

Ana Maria Vieira^I,II; Edy de Lello^I

^IDepartamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista. 18618-000 Botucatu, São Paulo, Brasil

^IIM.S. Scholarship - CNPq

ABSTRACT

The digestive tube of 2^nd and 3^rd instar larvae, pupae and newly emerged adults of Dermatobia hominis (Linnaeus, 1781) was studied anatomically. The specimens were dissected in buffer saline under a stereomicroscope, and the digestive tubes were placed on slides and fixed in 10% buffered formalin. Each tube was measured using a micrometric eye piece, and drawings were made with camera lucida. The results showed that the midgut, the hindgut and the Malpighian tubules with their ducts grow gradually during the larval development. The oesophagus and the salivary glands with their ducts grow only during the moult from the 2^nd to the 3^rd instar. In the pupal period, salivary glands grow gradually but disappeared after the 20^th day. After metamorphosis the digestive tube regressed. This is expected since adult D. hominis lives about nine days without feeding. This fly, similar to other calyptratae muscoid flies shows no vestige of a crop during all post-embrionic development, and the adult has no salivary glands.

Key words:Dermatobia hominis, digestive tube, anatomy, post-embrionic development.

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Recebido em 08.V.1996; aceito em 27.XII.1996.

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[2] Christophers, S.R. 1960. Aedes aegypti (L.), the yellow fever mosquito. Its life history, bionomics and structure. Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 739p.

[3] Demerec, M. 1950. Biology of Drosophila. New York, J. Wiley and Sons, 632p.

[4] Dixon, S.E. 1952. The anatomy and histology of the digestive tract of Hylemya brassicae (Bouché) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae). Rep. Entomol. Soc. Ontario 82:47-60.

[5] Graham-Smith, G.S. 1934. The alimentary canal of Calliphora erythrocephala L., with special reference to its musculature and to the proventriculus, rectal valve and rectal papillae. Parasitology 26:176-248.

[6] Henson, H. 1944. The development of the Malpighian tubules of Blatta orientalis (Orthoptera). Proc. Roy. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 19:73-91.

[7] Herbst, D.B. & Bradley, T.J. 1989. The Malpighian tubule lime gland in an insect inhabiting alkaline salt lakes. J. Exp. Biol. 145:63-78.

[8] Hori, K. 1960. Comparative anatomy of the internal organs of the calyptratae muscoid flies. I. Male internal sexual organs of the adult flies. Sci. Rep. Kanazawa Univ. 7:23-83.

[9] ______. 1961. Comparative anatomy of the internal organs of the calyptratae muscoid flies. II. Female internal sexual organs of the adult flies. Sci. Rep. Kanazawa Univ. 7:61-101.

[10] ______. 1962a. Comparative anatomy of the internal organs of the calyptratae muscoid flies. III. The alimentary canal of adult flies. Sci. Rep. Kanazawa. Univ. 8:69-88.

[11] ______. 1962b. Comparative anatomy of the internal organs of the calyptratae muscoid flies. IV. The Malpighian tubules of the adult flies. Sci. Rep. Kanazawa. Univ. 8:89-106.

[12] Imms, A.D. 1957. A General Textbook of Entomology. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 3^th ed., 886p.

[13] King, D.G. 1988. Cellular Organization and Peritrophic membrane formation in the cardia (Proventriculus) of Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Morphol. 196:253-282.

[14] ______. 1989. Phylogenetic diversity of cellular organization in the cardia of muscoid flies (Diptera: Schizophora). Jour. Morphol. 202:435-455.

[15] ______. 1991. The origin of an organ: Phylogenetic analysis of evolutionary innovation in the digestive tract of flies (Insecta: Diptera). Evolution. 45:568-588.

[16] Kobayashi, K. 1934. Studies on the internal anatomy of the Trypaneidae (fruit-flies). Trans. Natur. Hist. Soc. Formosa 24 (131):136-149.

[17] Megahed, M.M. 1956. Anatomy and histology of the alimentary tract of the female of the biting midge Culicoides nubeculosus Meigen (Diptera: Heleidae: Ceratopogonidae). Parasitology. 46:22-47.

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[20] ______. 1954b. Comparative morphology of the drosophilid flies. VI. Rectal papillae, their mumber, arragement and shape. Zool. Mag. Tokyo. 63:262-265.

[21] Owsley, W.M.B. 1946. The comparative morphology of internal structures of the Asilidae (Diptera). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 39:33-68.

[22] Poulson, D.F. 1937. The embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster. Actualités Sci. et ind., Hermann et Cie, 1:1-51.

[23] Robertson, C.W. 1936. Metamorphosis of Drosophila melanogaster, including and accurately timed account of the principal morphological changes. Jour. Morphol. 59:351-399.

[24] Ross, E.B. 1939. The post-embryonic development of the salivary glands of Drosophila melanogaster. Jour. Mophol. 65:471-495.

[25] Singh, S.B. & W.W. Judd. 1966. A comparative study of the alimentary canal of adult Calyptratae (Diptera). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Ont. 96:29-80.

[26] Snodgrass, R.E. 1935. Principles of Insect Morphology. The Alimentary Canal. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 667p.

[27] West, L.S. 1951. The housefly. New York, Comstock Publ. Co. Ithaca, 584p.

[28] Wigglesworth, V.B. 1929. Digestion in tsetse-fly: a study of structure and function. Parasitology 21:288-321.

[29] ______. 1972. The Principles of Insect Physiology. New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 7th ed., 820p.