ATTACHMENT AND FEEDING DEVICES OF WATER-MITE LARVAE (ARRENURUS SPP) PARASITIC ON DAMSEL-FLIES (ODONATA, ZYGOPTERA)

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ABRO, A
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[1] Institute of Anatomy, University of Bergen, Bergen, N-5000
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10.1111/j.1463-6409.1979.tb00634.x
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Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Water‐mite larvae of the subgenus Arrenurus (Acari, Hydrachnellae) act as habitual ectoparasites on zygopteran imagines, mostly attached to the soft membranous cuticle. The powerful larval pedipalp claws grasp the cuticle and the distal sabre‐like cheliceral segments tear it, thus obtaining the host's tissue fluids. The chelicerae and palps co‐operate to anchor the larva. The attached larva soon produces—in the host's subcuticular epidermis layer, and separated from the haemocoele by the thin sheet of subepidermal connective tissue—an elongated pouch, the stylostome, consisting of an acellular gelatinous substance, apparently secreted by the larva. Presumably, interaction with components in the host's tissue fluids solidifies the stylostome, which becomes firmly fixed to the host's body wall. The stylostome is thought to lengthen by repeated alternation between the suction of tissue fluids from the host and secretion of fresh soft substance forming additional stylostome segments. The resilient stylostome develops in a cleft between the host's cuticle and the subepidermal connective tissue in connection with partial decomposition of the host's epidermis, probably caused by cytotoxins leaking from the stylostome. In attempts to wall off the wound and thus to avoid influx of foreign substances, the host lays down a melanin sleeve around the stylostome at the perforation site. Lodgement of the functional stylostome separated from the haemocoele within the host's tissues might explain why the newly‐formed stylostome seems immune from cellular host reactions. However, cellular encapsulation and melanization appear to happen to outworn, non‐active stylostomes. Copyright © 1979, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
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