supplementary reproductive

supplementary reproductive
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Isoptera, a queen or male, in the form of adultoid, nymphoid or ergatoid, that take over as a functional reproductive after the removal of the primary reproductive of the same sex.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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