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_aKaufmann, T.
260 _cOct 1974
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520 _aSpindle-shaped eggs are laid in loose batches on the larval food media consisting of decayed vegetable matter. Larvae are gregarious, have a strong affinity for water, and pupate after 4 molts. Pupae, when molested, are capable of defending themselves by vigorous body movements. The mean developmental period from egg to adult is 16 days at 23 grade centigrade. Both sexes of Forcipomyia inornatipennis (Austen) swarm at dawn and at dusk. Mating occurs in air with males actively seeking females. After mating, females alight on decayed vegetable matrix as well as on dung of herbivorous animals for oviposition. The species breeds throughout the year. In capitivity, adults lived 8-16 (mean, 12) days on sugar solution, and after 7 days on this diet ovaries matured and oviposition followed. Pollination experiments have shown that F. inornatipennis is an efficient pollinator of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.). Means to attract this insect to cocoa plantations, as well as its artificial breeding, are discussed.
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_aTHEOBROMA CACAO
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_aFORCIPOMYIA INORNATIPENNIS
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_aCERATOPOGONIDAE
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_aPOLINIZADORES
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_aBIOLOGIA
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_aECOLOGIA ANIMAL
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_aGHANA
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_aTHEOBROMA CACAO
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_aCERATOPOGONIDAE
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_aPOLLINATORS
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_aBIOLOGY
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_aANIMAL ECOLOGY
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_aGHANA
692 _aTHEOBROMA CACAO
692 _aCERATOPOGONIDAE
692 _aPOLLINISATEUR
692 _aBIOLOGIE
692 _aECOLOGIE ANIMALE
692 _aGHANA
773 0 _tJournal of the Kansas Entomological Society (EUA)
_dOct 1974
_gv. 47(4) p. 541-548
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245 1 0 _aBehavioral biology of a cocoa pollinator, Forcipomyia inornatipennis (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) in Ghana
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