Preparation

Left maxilla of a larva of a dragonfly Aeshna grandis (Insecta, Aeshnidae).

In
Collection 29

Collection
Number

ZIN-AAZ-NSI-1-1

Species: Aeshna grandis (Linnaeus, 1758)    Arthropoda

Preparation Type: whole mount

Prepared: A.A. Zavarzin

Description: Whole mount. Innervation of sensory setae.

Method: supravital methylene blue staining

Method Description: The method is described in detail in:

  • The technique of staining the nervous system with methylene blue / Selected works of A.S. Dogiel, professor of Saint-Petersburg University. Saint-Petersburg: K.L. Rikker, 1902. (In Russian)
  • Plotnikova S.I. Structural organization of the central nervous system of insects. Leningrad: Nauka, 1979. 120 pp. (In Russian)

Institution: Zoological Institute RAS

 

 

 

Series
of images

Left maxilla of a larva of a dragonfly Aeshna grandis (Insecta, Aeshnidae).

Preparation

ZIN-AAZ-NSI-1-1

Description: Whole mount. Innervation of sensory setae.

Organs: nerve, Sensory organ

Methods: Neurohistology - supravital methylene blue staining

Series Details...

 

Series
of images

Left maxilla of a larva of a dragonfly Aeshna grandis (Insecta, Aeshnidae).

Preparation

ZIN-AAZ-NSI-1-1

Description: Whole mount. Innervation of sensory setae.

Organs: nerve, Sensory organ

Methods: Neurohistology - supravital methylene blue staining

Series Details...

 

Series
of images

Left Maxilla of a larva of a dragonfly Aeshna grandis (Insecta, Aeshnidae).

Preparation

ZIN-AAZ-NSI-1-1

Description: Whole mount. Innervation of sensory setae.

Organs: nerve, Sensory organ

Methods: Neurohistology - supravital methylene blue staining

Series Details...