Visualizing the Mesothoracic Spiracles in a Bark Beetle: Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Fernando E. Vega; Gary Bauchan; Francisco Infante; Jorge M. Valdéz-Carrasco; Roger Beaver

doi:10.1093/aesa/sav016

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1 May 2015 Visualizing the Mesothoracic Spiracles in a Bark Beetle: Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Fernando E. Vega, Gary Bauchan, Francisco Infante, Jorge M. Valdéz-Carrasco, Roger Beaver

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Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 108(3):446-448 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/sav016

Abstract

In a low-temperature scanning electron microscopy study aimed at determining whether the coffee berry borer [Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)] possesses mycangia, we fortuitously detected the mesothoracic spiracles, which are usually concealed. The mesothoracic spiracles are ventrolaterally located in the intersegmental membranes between the prothorax and mesothorax, and contain a large number of setae. This is the first study that includes photographs of the mesothoracic spiracles in a bark beetle.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America 2015. This work is written by US Government employees and is in the public domain in the US.

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Fernando E. Vega, Gary Bauchan, Francisco Infante, Jorge M. Valdéz-Carrasco, and Roger Beaver "Visualizing the Mesothoracic Spiracles in a Bark Beetle: Hypothenemus hampei (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)," Annals of the Entomological Society of America 108(3), 446-448, (1 May 2015). https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/sav016

Received: 25 November 2014; Accepted: 22 January 2015; Published: 1 May 2015

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