ID#: 9246
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This was one of five scanning electron microscopic (SEM) images (PHIL# 9243 – 9247), magnified at successively higher values, which focused on the head region of a female body louse, Pediculus humanus var. corporis from a ventral perspective. At a magnification of 307X, this SEM revealed some of the insect’s exoskeletal morphology exhibited on the cephalic region. Note the two partially visible, bilaterally situated antennae composed of three main segments: visible here was the most proximal scape and the pedicle, and not in the field of view, the multi-segmented flagellum. The antennae, and the insect’s body sport sensorial hairs known as setae, both of which provided the organism with a picture of its environment, by taking readings in thermal, chemical, and mechanical changes encountered in its immediate surroundings. Its cone-shaped mouth is located at the very top of the image.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Joseph Strycharz, Ph.D.; Kyong Sup Yoon, Ph.D.; Frank Collins, Ph.D.
Creation Date: 2006
Photo Credit: Janice Haney Carr
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