Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Authors: | M. D. Soler-Cruz, Martín-Mateo M. Paz |
Journal: | Micron |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pagination: | 401 - 408 |
Date Published: | 2009 |
Abstract: | Pretarsal, tarsal and tibial structures of the forelegs, midlegs and hindlegs of Pediculus humanus of humans and of Haematopinus apri Goureau, 1866 (Phthiraptera), a parasite of feral hogs, were studied using light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Details of the tibial thumb-like process (tl) with the spine of the thumb (spn), tarsal apophysis (ta) and the coupled finger-like process (cfl) can be observed in the leg photomicrograph of both species. A frontal view of the leg in open position shows the articulation of the claw: the structures of an open-closed system, a tooth row (te), rack-system (rs) and two telescopic columns (tc) which are present near the base of the claw in both species. In H. apri, we observed a pad-like structure, the flap-like tibial lobe (fl) on the ventral surface on the tarsus, the euplantulae, with several sensilla basiconica, which is present in each leg. |
URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968432808002151 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.micron.2008.10.001 |
Scanning electron microscopy of legs of two species of sucking lice (Anoplura: Phthiraptera)
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