Volume : VI, Issue : IX, September - 2017

Vitro Study of the circulating hemocytes of the Bed Bug, Cimex rotundatus.

Sandhya M. Sonawane, Yuwraj S. Sonawane

Abstract :

 A consensus over the hemocyte types, their classification and the terminologies used for their identification has not yet reached to everybody’s satisfaction. A diversiy in their morphological forms has added further in the confusion. Different workers have identified  6 to 70 hemocyte type.(Arnold, 1979; Gupta, 1979; 1985; Jones, 1962; Price and Ratcliffe, 1974; Sonawane,1984).

 Heteroptera is one of the impotant insect orders. Only a few reports on their hemocytes are available. Notable amongst them are the contributions by Wigglesworth (1955,1956), Hamilton (1931), Khanna (1964), Jones(1965), Lai– Fook (1970), Price and Ratcliffe(1974), Zaidi and Khan (1974), Sonawane (1984), More and Sonawane(1989). Most of them have identified five hemocyte types with light microscopy . These are prohemocyte, plasmocyte, granulocyte, spherulocyte, and Oenocytoid. Inspite of the great significance of Cimex as an ectoparasite and a vector for some human diseases, it has escaped the attention of the workers in the field. The present communication gives information on the histomorphological characteristics of the circulating hemocytes of Cimex rotundatus. Attempts have also been made to classify them appropriately.

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SANDHYA M. SONAWANE, YUWRAJ S. SONAWANE, Vitro Study of the circulating hemocytes of the Bed Bug, Cimex rotundatus., INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-9 | September-2017

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