House Fly Leg (Whole Mount)
Musca domestica
A whole mount (W.M.) preparation of a house fly leg. The slide displays typical dipteran leg segments including the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, and a five-segmented tarsus covered in sensory setae, terminating in a tarsal pretarsus equipped with claws and adhesive pulvilli.
- Category
- Invertebrates
- Magnification
- 20x
- Stain
- Unstained
- Tags
- House fly leg whole mount, House Fly Leg W.M., Musca domestica, House fly, Diptera, Muscidae, Arthropoda, Insect leg, Insect anatomy, Tarsus, Pulvilli, Setae, Invertebrate histology, Whole mount, Unstained
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