Empodium

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Tarsus
1 Claw ( unguis )
2 Pulvillus
3 Empodium
4 Arolium (foot rag)

The empodium , also known as "sole lobes" in German, is an adhesive organ on the foot segment ( tarsus ) of the legs of arthropods . It has adhesive hair on the underside. It can be bristle- shaped ( setiform , then also referred to as the plantar process) or lobe-shaped ( pulvilliform , plantar lobe ).

literature

  • Thilo Krumbach, Dietrich Starck: Handbook of zoology: a natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom . Volume 4 of Handbuch der Zoologie: a natural history of the tribes of the animal kingdom , Willy Georg Kükenthal. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1973, ISBN 978-3-11-004689-2 , pp. 198f.