fundatrigenia

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from fundatri- (from fundātrīx) + -genia (irregular from Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs, “born”)).

Noun

fundatrigenia (plural fundatrigeniae)

1. An offspring of a fundatrix.
   • 1936 November, Hilgardia, volume 10, number 7, page 184:

     At about this time some of the fundatrices mature and give birth, parthenogenetically, to the first fundatrigeniae.

   • 1956, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, page 7:

     R. cerasifoliae (Fitch) and R. viridis, new species, have essentially the same type of life cycle, but in the former fundatrigeniae are often produced throughout much of the summer, while in the latter this stage is never produced.

   • 1959, Annals of the Agricultural College of Sweden, page 470:

     Thus, in the autumn of 1958, no sexual forms were observed in our cultures, of which e.g. strain No. 10 does descend from one fundatrigenia taken from a peachtree in Scania in May, 1954, No. 105 from one on a peachtree in Scania in May, 1956.