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Ueber die pygidialdruese von enhydrus sulcatus (Wied., 1821) (Coleoptera, Gyrinidae)

The pair of pygidial glands of Enhydrus sulcatus opens in the pleural region of the abdominal segment. The gland possesses an excretorial canal, which, in its apical part, continuates into a voluminous and folded reservatory, provided with a muscular network to squeeze out the secretion fluid. Between these two parts there is a valve, characterized by a special cuticular structure. In the beginning part of the reservatory there lies an extensive glandular area. In front of the valve, branches a glandular tube from the wall of the excretorial canal, compounded of a central canal and lateral diverticles. The cells of the glandular area secrete an aquous fluid, which possesses only a little quantity of organical components and which serves as a vehiculum for the oily product of the glandular tube. The gland cells possess an intracellular excretorial apparatus, called "Binnenblase" by other authors, and which we considerate like a true rhabdorium. The cuticular tube, which penetrates into the rhabdorial complex and which forms the initial part of the excretorial canal, represents the real apical pole of the gland cell.


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