Fig. 3. Diversity of the leg attachment devices (graycolored areas) in hexapods. (a) Arolium (smooth). (b) Pulvilli (smooth or hairy). (c) Empodial pulvillus (ep) (hairy). (d) Hairy adhesive soles of tarsomeres. (e) Eversible pretarsal bladder (smooth). (f) Eversible structure between tibia and tarsus (smooth). (g) Fossula spongiosa (hairy). (h) Euplantulae (eu) and claw pad (cp) (both smooth). (i) Tarsal thorns transformed into adhesive structures (th), claw pad (cp) (both smooth). (j) Adhesive claw setaePublished as part of R. G. Beutel & S. N. Gorb, 2001, Ultrastructure of attachment specializations of hexapods (Arthropoda): evolutionary patterns inferred from a revised ordinal phylogeny, pp. 177-207 in J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Research 39 ...
Eutardigrada systematics relies mainly on the morphology of the sclerified structures of the animals...
FIGURE 3. Foot and claw morphology. A. Generalised leg. B. Chimaeric foot showing various claw confi...
<p><b>A.</b><i>Surusicaris elegans</i> gen. et sp. nov., holotype (ROM 62976), showing the three rig...
Fig. 6. Details of hexapod tarsi and pretarsi. (A, B) Urocerus gigas (Hymenoptera), hindleg, tarsus,...
Fig. 7. Details of hexapod tarsi and pretarsi. (A) Bibio nigriventris (Diptera), hindleg, pretarsus,...
Fig. 4. Details of hexapod tarsi and pretarsi. (A) Lepisma saccharina (Zygentoma), foreleg, pretarsu...
Fig. 2. Terminology of arolium structures (schematized from Snodgrass 1956). (a) Dorsal aspect; (b) ...
Attachment devices of representatives of most higher taxa of hexapods were examined. Short descripti...
This study shows that, in their evolution, hexapods have convergently developed two distinctly diffe...
23 Auchenorrhyncha Tarsi are threesegmented. An arolium has evolved in cicadids and cercopids (Fig...
Characters of hexapod attachment structures were analysed cladistically together with 110 additional...
<p>Insects have developed specialized structures on their feet for adhering to surfaces, with stick ...
<p>Insects have developed specialized structures on their feet for adhering to surfaces, with stick ...
Insects have developed specialized structures on their feet for adhering to surfaces, with stick and...
Changes in the morphological character of appendages are essential to arthropod diversification and ...
Eutardigrada systematics relies mainly on the morphology of the sclerified structures of the animals...
FIGURE 3. Foot and claw morphology. A. Generalised leg. B. Chimaeric foot showing various claw confi...
<p><b>A.</b><i>Surusicaris elegans</i> gen. et sp. nov., holotype (ROM 62976), showing the three rig...
Fig. 6. Details of hexapod tarsi and pretarsi. (A, B) Urocerus gigas (Hymenoptera), hindleg, tarsus,...
Fig. 7. Details of hexapod tarsi and pretarsi. (A) Bibio nigriventris (Diptera), hindleg, pretarsus,...
Fig. 4. Details of hexapod tarsi and pretarsi. (A) Lepisma saccharina (Zygentoma), foreleg, pretarsu...
Fig. 2. Terminology of arolium structures (schematized from Snodgrass 1956). (a) Dorsal aspect; (b) ...
Attachment devices of representatives of most higher taxa of hexapods were examined. Short descripti...
This study shows that, in their evolution, hexapods have convergently developed two distinctly diffe...
23 Auchenorrhyncha Tarsi are threesegmented. An arolium has evolved in cicadids and cercopids (Fig...
Characters of hexapod attachment structures were analysed cladistically together with 110 additional...
<p>Insects have developed specialized structures on their feet for adhering to surfaces, with stick ...
<p>Insects have developed specialized structures on their feet for adhering to surfaces, with stick ...
Insects have developed specialized structures on their feet for adhering to surfaces, with stick and...
Changes in the morphological character of appendages are essential to arthropod diversification and ...
Eutardigrada systematics relies mainly on the morphology of the sclerified structures of the animals...
FIGURE 3. Foot and claw morphology. A. Generalised leg. B. Chimaeric foot showing various claw confi...
<p><b>A.</b><i>Surusicaris elegans</i> gen. et sp. nov., holotype (ROM 62976), showing the three rig...