arrhenotokous

From arrhenotoky +‎ -ous.

arrhenotokous (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Relating to arrhenotoky; producing males from unfertilized eggs.

   Certain wasps and bees are arrhenotokous.

   • 2015 July 9, Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin, Andrey V. Stekolshchikov, D.C. Gautam, “General trends of chromosomal evolution in Aphidococca (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphidinea + Coccinea)”, in Comparative Cytogenetics‎^[1], volume 9, →DOI:

     In scale insects no examples of cyclic parthenogenesis are known and parthenogenesis can be thelytokous, deuterotokous or arrhenotokous.

• arrenotokous