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Agriculture · Q253

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 253

Q253

Blood gills are found in

A.
Chironomids
B.
Trichopterans
C.
Notonecta
D.
Both A and B
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
Blood gills are found in Chironomids and Trichopterans.
A blood gill is a gill like structure restricted to organs with spacious lumen and poorly developed/absent trachea, found in larvae of aquatic insects.
The functionality of this gill to respiration, and concludes it exists more likely to absorb water.
Thin plates or filaments with a copious tracheal supply and only a very small blood cavity, structures which are typically developed in such insects as Trichoptera.