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Science 4 December 1970:
Vol. 170. no. 3962, pp. 1098 - 1099
DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3962.1098
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Distal Lobe of the Pilifer: An Ultrasonic Receptor in Choerocampine Hawkmoths

Kenneth D. Roeder 1, Asher E. Treat 2, and Jerry S. Vande Berg 3

1 Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155
2 American Museum of Natural History, New York 10024
3 Department of Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202

Evidence is presented for a novel mechanism mediating the auditory sense in the Choerocampinae (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Vibrations in the scale-free medial wall of the enlarged labial palp segment are transmitted by contact to the distal lobe of the pilifer, a derivative of the labrum, and are there transduced into afferent impulses in the labral nerve.


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