Adactylidium
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| Subclass: | Acari |
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| Genus: | Adactylidium Cross, 1965
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Adactylidium is a
egg of a thrips, rapidly growing five to eight female offspring and one male in her body. The single male mite mates with all his sisters when they are still inside their mother. The new females, now impregnated, eat their way out of their mother's body so that they can emerge to find new thrips eggs, killing their mother in the process (though the mother may be only 4 days old at the time), starting the cycle again.[2][3][4]
The male emerges as well, but does not look for food or new mates, and dies after a few hours.
See also
References
- ISBN 0-393-01380-4.
- S2CID 25744635.
- ISBN 978-0-13-227584-2.
- ISSN 1938-2901.
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