A comparative study of the abdominal trichobothria of Trichophora, with emphasis on Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

Title:

A comparative study of the abdominal trichobothria of Trichophora, with emphasis on Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

Creator:

Gao, Cuiqing, Rédei, Dávid, Shi, Xueqin, Cai, Bo, Liang, Ke, Gao, Shuo, and Bu, Wenjun

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:8178f861-6b98-458a-bf13-1e5bad5824d4
uuid:8178f861-6b98-458a-bf13-1e5bad5824d4
doi:10.14411/eje.2017.072

Subject:

Heteroptera, Hemiptera, Trichophora, Lygaeoidea, abdominal trichobothria, morphology, and systematics

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Members of the clade Trichophora (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha) have trichobothria on their abdominal sterna. There is no comparative study of the fine structure of abdominal trichobothria in the group and until now the trichobothria of their immatures were virtually unknown. The fine structure of the abdominal trichobothrial complex (= the trichobothrium and its associated structures) of adults of 98 species belonging to 25 families in 5 superfamilies and larvae of 7 species belonging to 7 families in 2 superfamilies of Trichophora were examined using scanning electron microscopy. This study indicates that the fine structure of the abdominal trichobothria is very variable and useful for determining evolutionary lineages within the clade. Six types of bothria, three of trichomes and three of microtrichia are recognized and their evolutionary transformations discussed. Changes in the size of trichomes, and density and size of the microtrichia during the postembryonic development of selected species are discussed.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2017 Volume:114

Harvested from:

CDK

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