[Peculiarities of the internal anatomy in the mite family Syringophilidae by the example of Syringophilopsis fringilla--a parasite of chaffinch].
Internal anatomy of the female Syringophilopsis fringilla (Fritsch, 1958) was investigated by light microscope using electron microscope to control the results for some body regions. The digestive tract is open. The anterior midgut includes the stomach and two pairs of caeca. The posterior midgut is represented by a long tubular excretory organ being connected to the stomach via a small opening. The opening is provided by a muscular sphincter. The short hind gut ends in the anal opening at the terminal side of the body. The unpaired tubular gland occupies medial region of the body between the brain and the mouth parts. Paired coxal glands lack typical sacculi. Each of them, in addition to long filtering tubules, contains two glandular regions producing different secretory products. The cuticul-lined excretory duct of each coxal gland opens into the podocephalic canal, running from the base of leg coxae I to the front side of the rostrum The female reproductive system of S. fringilla is composed of the unpaired ovary, large oviduct, and cuticular vaginal cavity with extensively folded walls. Vagina leads to the separate opening, situated in the deep body invagination ventrally to the anus. The oviduct consists of highly folded proximal portion and enlarged distal one. The distal portion of the oviduct is characterized by the glandular epithelial lining producing special secretory product into the lumen of the organ. All females examined contain numerous long spermia inside the large receptaculum seminis. The latter runs into the oviduct at the junction of its two parts. Large granulocytes were observed in the body cavity of the mites. Neither nephrocytes nor typical fat body cells were found.
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D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008925:Mites / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D020308:Songbirds / Q000469:parasitology*