Thoracic scent efferent system and exponium of Aphylidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea), its architecture and function

Title:

Thoracic scent efferent system and exponium of Aphylidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea), its architecture and function

Creator:

Petr Kment, Pavel Štys, and Jitka Vilímová

Identifier:

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Subject:

Zoologie, zoologie, entomologie, Heteroptera, Pentatomoidea, Aphylidae, morphology, thorax, exponium, efferent system of metathoracic scent glands, antipredatory behaviour, 2, and 59

Type:

article, články, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

The external morphology of Aphylidae was studied previously in detail by the two junior authors, including the description of unique derived structures formed by their lateral thoracico-abdominal region (the exponium). Here we provide an additional description of the external scent efferent system of the metathoracic scent glands of species in the genus Aphylum Bergroth, 1906 (based on scanning electron microscope study) and its connection with an autapomorphic aphylid thoracico-abdominal region, the exponium. The origins of exponial sclerites are discussed and function of the exponium is hypothesised as being part of a complex defensive mechanism in the Aphylidae., Petr Kment, Pavel Štys, Jitka Vilímová., and Obsahuje seznam literatury

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2012 Volume:109 | Number:2

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