Functional anatomy of the hypopharynx and the salivary pump in the feeding apparatus of the assassin bug Rhodnius prolixus (Reduviidae, Heteroptera)

Zoomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 225-234

  Wenk, Peter ^a   Lucic, Silvia ^a   Betz, Oliver ^b  

^a Abt Evolutionsbiologie der Invertebraten ^*  (Germany)

^b Institut für Evolution und Ökologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feeding; Heteroptera; Hypopharynx; Mouthparts; Reduviidae; Salivary pump

Indexed keywords

DIPETALOGASTER MAXIMUS; HETEROPTERA; PANSTRONGYLUS; PANSTRONGYLUS MEGISTUS; PENTATOMIDAE; PYRRHOCORIDAE; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS; REDUVIIDAE; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA DIMIDIATA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS;

EID: 78649683934     PISSN: 0720213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00435-010-0115-7     Document Type: Article

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