Abstract
Blood-sucking insects can be divided into two groups depending on the design of the alimentary canal for the storage of the blood meal. In one group, typified by Hemiptera and fleas, the alimentary canal is a simple tube and the blood is stored in the midgut. In the second group, typified by Diptera, the gut has between one and three diverticulae which may be used, in addition to the midgut, for the storage of the blood meal (Fig. 6.1). In this second group some insects, such as tsetse flies, always store blood in the diverticulae. In others, such as the stablefly, passage of blood to the diverticulum is more variable among feeds (Gooding 1972).
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Lehane, M.J. (1991). Managing the blood meal. In: Biology of Blood-Sucking Insects. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7953-9_6
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