Proprioceptive Control of Flight in Insects

It is well known that in Schistocerca gregaria and Locusta migratoria the receptors located in different parts of the insect body are involved in flight. These receptors can be found on the antennae (hair plates, campaniform sensilla, chordotonal organs), on the head (trichoid sensilla referred to as “wind”-receptors), on the thorax (trichoid sensilla), on the cerci (trichoid sensilla), on the tegula (hair plates and receptors of the chordotonal organs), in wing junctions (stretch receptors and receptors of chordotonal organs) and, at last, on the wings (trichoid wind sensilla and campaniform sensilla).