[Ultrastructural studies of Haller's organ in the argasid ticks, Ornithodoros moubata and Alvenonasus lahorensis (Argasidae)].
The paper completes the series of morphological investigations of the main distant receptor organ in the ticks of the family Argasidae by scanning and transmitting electron microscopy (Balashov a. Leonovich, 1977; Leonovich, 1979) and considers descriptions of the fine structure of Haller's organs of ornithodoid (O. moubata) and otobiinoid (A. lahorensis) types. The summarising of the data on Haller's organ in argasids has enabled the author to suggest possible ways of evolution of this organ. An important role of transformations of different non-sensory structures in the evolution was shown. Characteristic features of the evolution of the organ in argasids are: morphologically progressive differentiation of a capsule (olfactory part of the organ) and reduction of an anterior group of sensilla.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D012679:Sense Organs / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013987:Ticks / Q000648:ultrastructure*
Ul'trastrukturnye issledovaniia organa Gallera argasovykh kleshcheĭ Ornithodoros moubata i Alveonasus lahorensis (Argasidae).