• Animal cells and systems
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.161-167
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• 2009

The cuticle of spider's exoskeleton is a hydrophobic and non-adhesive material, but the jumping spiders have the distinctive attachment apparatus for adhesion on smooth dry surface without sticky fluids. We have examined the whole tarsal appendages of the jumping spider, Plexippus setipes with using scanning electron microscope to reveal the fine structural characteristics of the dry adhesion system. All eight legs have the scopulae with a pair of claws on the tip of feet. Each scopula is composed of two groups of setae that are capable of dry adhesion on smooth surface, and the hook structure of the claw is advanced to move on the rough surface. The setae toward the bottom of the tarsal segment are densely covered by numerous setules on the underside which broadened from middle to distal portion. It has been revealed by this research that the contact area of the setule is always a triangular shape, and these cuticular surfaces are connected by the elongated stalks from the underlying setae. It is likely that the nano-scale structures including a triangular depression and a longitudinal groove on each setule could functionate when the spider detach its feet from the substrate.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2009

거미의 외골격은 그 특성상 소수성이며 접착성이 없는 구조를 지니고 있지만, 일부 배회성 거미들은 부드럽고 건조한 표면을 따라 보행할 수 있는 독특한 접착장치를 지니고 있다. 본 연구는 거미류 접착보행 장치의 미세구조적 특성을 규명하기 위하여 깡충거미과의 세발깡충거미 (Plexippus setipes)를 실험재료로 하여 4쌍의 보행지에 형성된 접착장치를 고배율의 주사전자현미경으로 관찰하였다. 그 결과, 각각의 보행지에서 2개의 발톱(claw)과 강모다발 (scopula)이 관찰되었는데, 건조한 표면에 대한 부착력은 강모다발의 특이한 구조로부터 발생됨이 확인되었다. 각 보행지마다 약 160개의 강모 (seta)가 관찰되었는데, 표면과 접촉을 이루는 방향에 따라 두 집단의 강모다발로 구분되었다. 강모의 배면을 따라 형성된 무수한 감각모로 인해 인접 강모들과의 접착이 차단되어 있었고, 강모의 복면에서는 고밀도로 밀집된 미세강모 (setule)들이 관찰되었다. 미세강모의 첨단부는 역삼각형의 주걱모양으로 펼쳐져 충분한 접촉면을 확보하고 있었으며, 미세강모의 유연성과 그 표면에 형성된 큐티클 함몰부의 미세구조 등이 깡충거미류 부착장치의 특성임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 2007

A new genus Goodingius is proposed to incorporate Hemicyclops adhaerens(Williams), H. arenicolae Gooding, H. elongatus Wilson and H. subadhaerens Gooding, all of which bear the six-segmented female urosome, three mandibular elements (or three elements plus one rudimentary setule), five setae on the first antennular segment, and no inner coxal seta of leg 4. The genus Giardella Canu, a sister taxon of Goodingius, is redefined as possessing eight elements on the third exopodal segment of leg 3, only a single inner seta on the second endopodal segment of leg 4, four spines on the third endopodal segment of leg 4. To the genus Giardella, Hemicyclops caissarum Kihara and Rocha and H. carinifer Humes are assigned, in addition to Giardella ricoensis n. sp., Giardella callianassae Canu, and G. thompsoni A. Scott. Keys to the species of both genera are provided.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.219-229
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• 2016

Material of a Bryocamptus species, formerly reported as B. umiatensis Wilson, 1958 from Sakhalin and South Korea, is here recognized as a distinct new species. Specimens of both sexes were recently obtained from an alpine wetland, Sumeunmulbaengdui, located in the Hallasan National Park, Korea, and newly registered as a Ramsar Wetland in 2015. The new species, B. jejuensis n. sp., differs from the type population of B. umiatensis from Alaska by the smooth margin of the anal operculum in both sexes, the peculiarly modified terminal seta on the distal endopodal segment of the male leg 3, the sword-like spinous seta on the distal endopodal segment of the male leg 4, and the presence of a setule row on the inner distal margin of the caudal rami in the female. Both sexes of the new species are described in detail with particular reference to the male characters. A revised key to the seven species of the genus Bryocamptus Chappuis, 1929 occurring in Korean waters is provided.