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The central projections of ocellar interneurones in two species of trichopterous insects Agrypnia varia F. and Limnephilus flavicornis F. were analysed by use of cobalt iontophoresis. The interneurones were classified into three groups: large-, medium- and small-caliber neurones based on the diameters of the axons. Seven large-diameter neurones project from each lateral ocellus into the central nervous system. Of these, four neurones terminate in the posterior slope (three ipsilateral and one contralateral). Three neurones possess branches in the contralateral posterior slope and proceed down the cervical connective into the thoracic ganglia. Medium-sized neurones connect the neuropiles of the three ocelli to each other. Small-diameter neurones contact the contralateral lobula and medulla of the optic lobes and connect the three ocellar neuropiles. Large-diameter neurones of the median ocellus were found to terminate bilaterally or ipsilaterally in the posterior slope. In the posterior slope four different subregions can be recognised: (1) the dorso-lateral, (2) the ventro-lateral, (3) the lateral, into which large-diameter interneurones of the lateral ocelli send branches, and (4) the medial, innervated by interneurones of the median ocellus. Interneurones of the median ocellus send branches into the lateral region as well.
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Hagberg, M., Nässel, D.R. Interneurones subserving ocelli in two species of trichopterous insects: morphology and central projections. Cell Tissue Res. 245, 197–205 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00218101
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