Penicillum
Penicillum ( Latin diminutive of brush) (sometimes also Penicillium or Penicillium) describes in zoology a dense hairbrush on the underside of the fourth antennae in the males of some tiger beetles . The following species have a penicillum in the genus Lophyra : Lophyra bertolonia , Lophyra fasciculicornis , Lophyra flexuosa , Lophyra monteiroi , Lophyra latelimbata and Lophyra differens from the Afrotropic and Palearctic as well as the two species Lophyra fuliginosa and Lophronsyra from the Oriental striatifronsyra . The function of the structures is still unknown. It may be sensilla or bristle related to mating. By far not all of the over 2,300 species of tiger beetle have a penicillum. The presence is limited to around 30 species in the Cicindelini tribe . Of these, Lophyra flexuosa is the only one found in the Palearctic.
Other brush-like structures in insects are sometimes referred to as penicillum.
See also
swell
- ↑ Walther Horn: Coleoptera Adephaga Fam. Carabidae Subfam. Cicindelinae . In: Genera Insectorum . 82A. Demet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles 1908, p. 14 .
- ^ Fabio Cassola (1975): Studies on Cicindelids. 12. Cicindelidae collected by Avv. Mario Cassola in some South Eastern regions of Africa (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). Monitors Zoologico Italiano Supplemento VI (9): 189-221
- ^ Fabio Cassola (2008): Studies of Tiger Beetles. CLXXVIII. A new Lophyra (Lophyra) from Somaliland (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae). ZooKeys 4: 65-69
- ↑ a b Fabio Cassola (1980): Studi sui Cicindelidi. XXVIII. Osservazioni preliminari sopra una struttura sessuale maschile non genitale di alcune specie di cicindelidi (Coleoptera Cicindelidae). Atti XII Congresso Nazionale Italiano di Entomologia 2: 93-103
- ^ David L Pearson and Alfried P Vogler: Tiger beetles. The Evolution, Ecology, and Diversity of the Cicindelids . In: Cornell Series in Arthropod Biology . Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London 2001, ISBN 978-0-8014-3882-0 .