House Fly Leg (Whole Mount)

Musca domestica

Microscope slide: House Fly Leg (Whole Mount)

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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