AuthorGorb, S.N.
Year1998
TitleThe design of the fly adhesive pad: distal tenent setae are adapted to the delivery of an adhesive secretion
TypePaper
SourceProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Vol 265: 747-752.
IllustrationsLine drawings and half-tone electron micrographs
Review (by Malcolm Storey)The mechanincs of the stickiness of flies’ feet, from a study of Episyrphus balteatus and Calliphora "erythrocephala".

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
CurrentDIPTERAtwo-winged fliesAnimalia
CurrentEpisyrphus balteatusMarmalade HoverflyAnimalia: Diptera: Syrphidae
CurrentCalliphora vicinaCommon BluebottleAnimalia: Diptera: Calliphoridae
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