Figures 3.2


Muscle attachments to body wall:
Figures 3.2. Muscle attachments to body wall:

(a) tonofibrillae traversing the epidermis from the muscle to the cuticle; (b) a muscle attachment in an adult beetle of Chrysobothrus femorata (Coleoptera: Buprestidae); (c) a multicellular apodeme with a muscle attached to one of its thread-like, cuticular “tendons” or apophyses. (After Snodgrass 1935)

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