Distal lobe of the pilifer: an ultrasonic receptor in choerocampine hawkmoths.
Evidence is presented for a novel mechanism mediating the auditory sense in the Choerocampinae (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Vibrations in the scale-free medial wall of the enlarged labial palp segment are transmitted by contact to the distal lobe of the pilifer, a derivative of the labrum, and are there transduced into afferent impulses in the labral nerve.
Roeder
K D
KD
Treat
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Vande Berg
J S
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