Females possessing homozygous germline clones when mated to wild type males produce two classes of embryos: heterozygous females are fertile and morphogenetically normal and hemizygous male embryos lack dorsal cuticle, posterior spiracles and filzkorper material. The ventral cuticle present has no naked cuticle in the thoracic or abdominal segments. Embryos show an aberrant pattern of cell death and lack of parasegmental and segmental boundaries.