Epidermal Glands in Terminal Abdominal Segments of Female Heliothis virescens (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)1
- 15 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 76 (2) , 242-247
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/76.2.242
Abstract
The terminal abdominal segments of Heliothis virescens (F.) have two areas of glandular tissue which may function in the production of a volatile sex pheromone. The first area, located in the intersegmental membrane between abdominal segments 8 and 9 + 10, has the form of a ventrolateral chevron. The second area, situated in the dorsal valves (papillae annales), is composed of columnar epidermal cells like those in the intersegmental membrane and of trichogenous glands associated with tubular setae.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Sex Pheromones of Noctuid Moths. X. The Morphology and Histology of the Female Sex Pheromone Gland of Trichoplusia ni (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)12Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1966