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Simplified diagram of the indirect flight muscles that power the oscillations produced by the thorax. A pair of dorsal longitudinal muscles (DL; purple) are flanked by a pair of dorso-ventral muscles (DV; green) located towards the centre of the thorax. Muscle diagrams modified from Snodgrass (1910).
