FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term prosternal sense organ ID (Ontology) FBbt:00007655 (Fly Anatomy)
Definition A sense organ located in a pit in the anterior wall of the thorax - immediately under the neck. It consists of a plate of sensory hairs whose innervating neurons have their cell bodies in a small ganglion behind the organ and project through the prosternal nerve to the prothoracic neuromere.[ FlyBase:FBrf0007196 ]
Also Known As "neck hair plate" ; "PSO"
Comment See figure 24 of FBrf0007196 == Power, 1948.
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 |__adult sense organ______________
external sensory organ             |
 |__external compound sense organ__|
compound sense organ               |
 |__external compound sense organ__|
                                   prosternal sense organ
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Is a adult sense organ
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Part of adult external prothorax
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