Figure 1.
Specialized structures of E. chinensis females for leaf-roll formation and inoculation of fungal spores. (a) Ventral side of the female. (b) Protibia with teeth. (c) A pair of maxillary palps (arrows). (d) Pairwise holes in the leaf that serve as inoculation sites. (e) Fungal spores are squeezed out of the mycangium. (f) Comb-like plate. (g) Fungal symbiont growing in a leaf-roll. Scale bars: 100 μm.