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Fig. 17

From: Diversification through gustatory courtship: an X-ray micro-computed tomography study on dwarf spiders

Fig. 17

Virtual slices and 3D models reconstructed from micro-CT scans. a Linyphia triangularis, virtual slice parallel to the sagittal plane, showing the epidermal glandular tissue (outlined in purple) anterior to the posterior median eye (PME). b, c Mitrager lucida. b frontal plane, showing the cuticular canals at the setal bases in the pre-PME groove. c reconstruction of the setal morphology in the pre-PME groove. d, e two slices on the frontal plane of M. elongata, showing the cuticular canals on the ventral side of the clypeus. f, g two slices on the frontal plane of M. clypeellum, showing the cuticular canals on the cheliceral bases

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