A Note on the Circulus as an Adhesive Organ in Some Pseudococcidae
- 1 January 1957
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 89 (1) , 46-48
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent8946-1
Abstract
Adhesive or climbing organs in the form of empodia or pulvilli between the tarsal claws are common structures in Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera and other orders (Weber 1933). A more unusual type consisting of a small oval sac on the distal end of the tibia of the prothoracic and metathoracic legs of the reduviid Rhodnius prolixus Stål. has been described by Gillett and Wigglesworth (1932).Keywords
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