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A description is given of the sensory cilium of the auditory organ in the Australian cicada,Cyclochila australasiae (Homoptera: Cicadidae). The following regions are distinguished, each of which has a slightly different construction: distal ciliary shaft, ciliary dilatation, proximal ciliary shaft, ciliary base, distal basal body, proximal basal body and ciliary root. The sensory cilia of other insect chordotonal organs (the general class to which auditory organs belong) appear to be essentially similar. Fine structures revealed by recent studies on motile cilia are present in these cilia also.
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Young, D. Fine structure of the sensory cilium of an insect auditory receptor. J Neurocytol 2, 47–58 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01099207
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