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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Arolium"”.
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Adhesive and frictional tarsal pads in stick insects
… attachment pads on their tarsi: the pretarsal arolium, responsible for adhesion, and the tarsal euplantulae, generating friction. These pads function complementarily during locomotion and are supported by secreted tarsal fluid inside the contact area. Although their general functional roles are …
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Ultrastructure and functional morphology of adhesive organs and anti-adhesive plant surfaces
… The adhesive organ of the stick insects, the arolium, revealed to consist of a layered setup. Underneath the surface with its fine longitudinal ridges the pads showed a construction of several layers. A thin epicuticular layer was situated on a loose fibrous structure consisting of stiff …
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Application of insecticides to control the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.)
… on the three pairs of legs. Only tarsal pads and arolium on each leg are involved in traveling and picking up insecticide residue. The total contact area at each step was 0.1879 mm² and 0.1771 mm² for laboratory susceptible (VPI) and field-collected (RHA) cockroach strains, respectively. There …