Ultrastructure of Coeloconic Sensilla on Postpedicel and Maxillary Palp of <I>Megaselia scalaris</I> (Diptera: Phoridae)

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

“…The results of the present study, which is the first to characterize antennal sensilla of parasitic phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae), are generally in conformity with those previously reported for other Dipteran species (Sutcliffe et al, 1990;Giangiuliani et al, 1994;Pfeil et al, 1994;Rahal et al, 1996;Shanbhag et al, 1999;Fernandes et al, 2004;Sukontason et al, 2004Sukontason et al, , 2005Sukontason et al, , 2007, but with some key exceptions. The size, shape, and morphology of the antennae of P. tricuspis, including the presence of only three antennal segments, are typical of most flies in the Cyclorrhapha suborder (Shanbhag et al, 1999).…”

“…The size, shape, and morphology of the antennae of P. tricuspis, including the presence of only three antennal segments, are typical of most flies in the Cyclorrhapha suborder (Shanbhag et al, 1999). However, the very short and barely conspicuous size of the pedicel of P. tricuspis, which is concealed under the flagellum, may be a morphological characteristic of the family Phoridae, as previously reported in the non-parasitic phorids Megaselia halterata (Wood) (Pfeil et al, 1994) and M. scalaris (Loew) (Sukontason et al, 2005).…”

“…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.…”

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

“…many aspects to characters of antennal sensilla described in other dipteran flies species (Arzuffi et al, 2008;Chapman, 1982;Chen and Fadamiro, 2008;Dethier et al, 1963;Dethier, 1971;Hu et al, 2010;Hunter and Adserballe, 1996;Kaib, 1974;Keil, 1999;Poddighe et al, 2010;Shanbhag et al, 1999;Slifer and Sekhon, 1964;Sukontason et al, 2004Sukontason et al, , 2005Sukontason et al, , 2007Wasserman and Itagaki, 2003).…”

Ultrastructure of antennal sensory organs of horse nasal-myiasis fly, Rhinoestrus purpureus (Diptera: Oestridae)

“…Trichoid sensilla, as one of the basic type of antennal sensilla in many other flies (Ross 1992;Shanbhag et al 1995;Hunter and Adserballe 1996;Shanbhag et al 2000;Sukontason et al 2004Sukontason et al , 2007Smallegange et al 2008;Liu et al 2013;Zhang et al 2013a, b), are undiscovered in R. purpureus. In some hippoboscids (Hippobosca equina, Hippobosca longipennis, Melophagus ovinus) (Zhang et al 2015) and phorids (Megaselia scalaris) (Loew) (Sukontason et al 2005), trichoid sensilla are also absent. Clyne et al (1999) confirm the pheromone sensitivity of trichoid sensilla by electrophysiological studies.…”