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Lehr’s fields of campaniform sensilla in beetles (Coleoptera): functional morphology

The series of collective articles treating the general construction of a sensory field at the base of the beetle’s elytron, its dependence on body size, loss of flight ability, mobility of the elytra.

Left: sensilla in the diving beetle, Dytiscus marginalis, depicted by Richard Lehr in 1914.

Right: the same field viewed in the scanning electron microscope.


 

General part and allometry

Wing reduction and the sensory field

Modification of elytral mobility

 

 

Series of papers:

 

1. Lehr’s fields of campaniform sensilla in beetles


 

     

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2004-2018