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The cerci, paired appendages at the rear end of the cricket abdomen, are covered with a variety of sense organs: the mechanosensitive filiform, clavate and long bristle hairs as well as campaniform sensilla and the gustatory short bristle hairs (Gnatzy and Schmidt, 1972, 1972; Schmidt and Gnatzy 1972). In this multimodal receptor system (Murphey and Chiba 1990), the most numerous are the exclusively mechanosensitive receptor types: filiform hairs and campaniform sensilla.
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Heußlein, R., Gras, H., Gnatzy, W. (2009). Functional Coupling of Cercal Filiform Hairs and Campaniform Sensilla in Crickets. In: Gorb, S.N. (eds) Functional Surfaces in Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6697-9_12
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