01642nas a2200193   4500008004100000020002500041245013400066210006900200260001400269300001200283490000700295520087700302653002601179100003101205700001901236700002801255700003001283856013501313       2011                        eng d  a1059-910X; 1097-002900aRhyncophorus Rhynchophorus palmarum L. (Linnaeus, 1758): A Morphological and Histological Study of the Female Reproductive System0 aRhyncophorus Rhynchophorus palmarum L Linnaeus 1758 A Morphologi  cSeptember  a853-8620 v743 aRhyncophorus palmarum (Coleoptera) is a pest of great economic importance because of the damage caused in the plants of the Palmae family. This study showed that the female reproductive system of this beetle is composed of two ovaries of the telotrophic meroistic type invariably containing two ovarioles per ovary. Each ovariole is home to about 50 oocytes at different stages of maturation. The proximal region of the ovary is rather peculiar because it houses inside it a large quantity of bacilliform structures immersed in a glycolipoprotein substance, which has never before been described in the literature. The function of these structures is still unknown. However, it is suggested that they can function as a method of neutralizing the resistance of the plant because these insects are responsible for the transmission of the red ring disease to the palm plants.10aRhyncophorus palmarum1 aMathias, Maria, Izabel Cam1 aSanchez, Pedro1 aDenardi, Sandra, Eloisi1 aCaetano, Flavio, Henrique  uhttps://weevil.myspecies.info/rhyncophorus-rhynchophorus-palmarum-l-linnaeus-1758-morphological-and-histological-study-female-repr