Integration of visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback during head stabilization in hawkmoths.

ABSTRACT: During flight maneuvers, insects exhibit compensatory head movements which are essential for stabilizing the visual field on their retina, reducing motion blur, and supporting visual self-motion estimation. In Diptera, such head movements are mediated via visual feedback from their compound eyes that detect retinal slip, as well as rapid mechanosensory feedback from their halteres - the modified hindwings that sense the angular rates of body rotations. Because non-Dipteran insects lack halteres, it is not known if mechanosensory feedback about body rotations plays any role in their head stabilization response. Diverse non-Dipteran insects are known to rely on visual and antennal mechanosensory feedback for flight control. In hawkmoths, for instance, reduction of antennal mechanosensory fee

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9259029 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature