hemolymphagy

English

Alternative forms
  • haemolymphagy

Noun

hemolymphagy (uncountable)

  1. feeding on hemolymph
    • 2015 October 16, “Revisiting Trypanosoma rangeli Transmission Involving Susceptible and Non-Susceptible Hosts”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      There are a few reports that suggest that insect-insect parasite transmission can occur through hemolymphagy, when one insect takes hemolymph from a conspecific [21 ] or during a simultaneous blood feeding [22 ], although the relevance of these alternative transmission routes in parasite circulation has not been established.
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