Ixodes ricinus
(Linnaeus, 1758): Respiratory System
J. Matthias Starck
Abstract:Adult
Ixodes ricinus
have a tracheal respiratory systemthat opens through two large spiracular plates on the lateroventral side of the idiosoma. The large, non‐respirtory, convective trunks of the tracheae emerge as cuticle‐lined tubes from the atrial chamber under the spiracular plate and extend to the anterior, medial, and posterior regions of the body where they branch into increasingly finer tracheae. Some tracheae anastomose with contralateral branches. The finest branches of the t… Show more
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