Antennal Sensilla of the New World Screwworm Fly, <I>Cochliomyia hominivorax</I> (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

Sensilla on the antennal funiculus of the blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

“…In particular, these sensilla may provide thermo-sensory information that, in synergy with olfactory ones, play an important role on the orientation behavior of this insect species towards oviposition sites (Angioy et al, 2004;Stensmyr et al, 2002). The findings of the present study do not exclude that the blow fly' funiculus has additional sensillum subtypes, such as those identified in other dipteran species (Fernandes et al, 2004;Shanbhag et al, 1999;Stocker, 2001).…”

“…antennal funiculus of Phormia regina (Dethier, 1952(Dethier, , 1954(Dethier, , 1961(Dethier, , 1971(Dethier, , 1976Dethier et al, , 1963Dethier and Yost, 1952;Lieberman, 1926) and Calliphora vicina (Kaib, 1974). In more recent investigations, the external organization of antennal sensilla has been described and an olfactory function has been suggested for most sensillar structures on the antennal funiculus of Cochliomyia hominivorax (Fernandes et al, 2004), Chrysomya megacephala, Chrysomya rufifacies, Chrysomya nigripes and Lucilia cuprina (Sukontason et al, 2004). Specific responses of antennal ORNs to odors released by the host were recorded in the sheep blow fly, L. cuprina (Park and Cork, 1999).…”

Antennal sensilla of the decapitating phorid fly, Pseudacteon tricuspis (Diptera: Phoridae)

“…of the antenna is significantly shorter (t-test, P = 0.036) in males (%101.2 AE 4.7 mm, n = 5) than in females (%112.7 AE 9.1 mm, n = 5). Unlike in most Dipterans (see for instance, Fernandes et al, 2004;Sukontason et al, 2004Sukontason et al, , 2007, the pedicel is the shortest segment of the antenna of P. tricuspis and is concealed under the flagellum (Fig. 1E-G).…”

“…Although numerous studies have characterized antennal sensilla of various species of Hymenopteran parasitoids (Norton and Vinson, 1974;Navasero and Elzen, 1991;Olson and Andow, 1993;Ochieng et al, 2000;Pettersson et al, 2001;Bleeker et al, 2004) and non-parasitic Dipterans (Sutcliffe et al, 1990;Pfeil et al, 1994;Shanbhag et al, 1999;Fernandes et al, 2004;Sukontason et al, 2004Sukontason et al, , 2005, www.elsevier.com/locate/micron Micron 39 (2008) [517][518][519][520][521][522][523][524][525] relatively little information exists on the antennal sensilla of Dipteran parasitoids (Giangiuliani et al, 1994;Rahal et al, 1996) and virtually none for parasitic phorid flies.…”

Effect of Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng leaf extracts on the mustard aphid, Lipaphis erysimi Kalt: A scanning electron microscope study

“…Samples of the control and of the treated adult aphids (after their death) were fixed in 2.5-3% gluteraldehyde, buffered in 0.1M sodium cacodylate (pH 7.2) at 48C for 4 hours, and washed in buffer like the one described in Fernandes et al (2004b). The samples were then dehydrated through increasing acetone concentrations and critical point dried in a Samdri PVT 3 (Tousimis).…”