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Science 18 November 1966:
Vol. 154. no. 3751, pp. 891 - 893
DOI: 10.1126/science.154.3751.891
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Ultrasonic Sensitivit: A Tympanal Receptor in the Green Lace Wing Chrysopa carnea

Lee A. Miller 1 and Ellis G. Macleod 1

1 Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chrysopa carnea can perceive ultrasonic frequencies up to at least 100 kilohertz modulated at pulse repetition rates as rapid as 150 per second. The receptor sites are a bilateral pair of small swellings in a vein of the fore wings.

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