SYNOPSIS Certain ultrastructural features of insect flight muscle are described and their value as criteria for differentiating between synchronous and asynchronous muscle is assessed. The distribution of asynchronous muscle in the Pterygota as a whole and the Hemiptera in particular is investigated and the evolutionary implications of the results are discussed.
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