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Agriculture · Q205

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 205

Q205

Pilifer is the hearing organ present in

A.
Green bug
B.
Hadda beetle
C.
Hawk moths
Answer
D.
Mayfly

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Pilifer is the hearing organ present in Hawk moths.
A pilifer or labral pilifer is part of a hearing organ found on the heads of hawkmoths of the subtribe Choerocampina. This organ detects the high-pitched echolocation sounds of insectivorous bats and enables the moth to elude them.
The labral pilifers and the labial palps form ultrasound-sensitive hearing organs in species of two distantly related hawkmoth subtribes, the Choerocampina and the Acherontiina.