One proboscis, two tasks: Adaptations to blood-feeding and nectar-extracting in long-proboscid horse flies (Tabanidae, Philoliche)

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 403-413

  Karolyi, Florian ^a   Colville, Jonathan F ^b   Handschuh, Stephan ^c   Metscher, Brian D ^a   Krenn, Harald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blood sucking; Diptera; Functional morphology; Mouthparts; Nectar feeding; Philoliche

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FEEDING; BODY HEIGHT; DIPTERA; DRINKING; FEEDING; FEMALE; HYPOPHARYNX; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; NASOPHARYNX; NECTAR; NECTAR FEEDING; NONHUMAN; PHILOLICHE GULOSA; PHILOLICHE ROSTRATA; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SUCKING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOUTH AFRICA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BRACHYCERA; DIPTERA; PANGONIINAE; TABANIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD; DIPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANT NECTAR; SOUTH AFRICA; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84923173586     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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