Character List

CHARACTER LIST AND DESCRIPTION

	Character Description
1	Lateralized nerve cords
2	Absence of antennaform appendages but cephalized
3	Single pair of antennaform appendages innervating neuromere 1
4	Antennular (1st antenna) appendages
5	Post-tritocerebral commissures above and below gut
6	Peripheral synapses
7	Subesophageal ganglia incompletely fused at midline
8	Body ganglia generally isomorphic (homonymous)
9	Pterothoracic neuropil
10	One or more thoracic ganglia fused
11	Discrete subesophageal ganglion, but distinct from body ganglia
12	Supraesophageal and subesophageal ganglia completely fused
13	Subesophageal ganglion fused to thoracic ganglia
14	Neuropils contiguous between body ganglia, including within postoral nerve cords
15	Segmental ganglia serving abdominal segments
16	Six leg neuromeres
17	Neuropils in brain generally heterolateral and contiguous across mid-line
18	Neuropil in brain are lateralized and linked heterolaterally by tracts
19	Generally uniform somata other than motor neurons or some giant neurons
20	Obvious clustering of neuronal somata into groups
21	Uniquely identifiable bilateral pairs of somatal clusters
22	Discrete neuropil islets contributing to cluster of similar islets ("glomeruli")
23	Glomeruli belonging to preoral neuromeres
24	Glomeruli supplied from frontal non appendicular appendages
25	Afferents to glomeruli from single antennae pair
26	Afferents to glomeruli from 1sr pair of antennae
27	Afferents to glomeruli from pedipalps
28	Afferents to glomeruli from modified 1st walking leg pair
29	Afferents to glomeruli from locations caudal to legs
30	Afferents to glomeruli from leg pair other than 1st
31	Afferents to glomeruli from several leg pairs
32	Glomerular neuropils receiving afferents from mouthparts
33	Glomeruli located in posterior thoracic neuromeres
34	Glomeruli located in anterior thoracic neuromeres
35	Glomeruli located in several neuromeres
36	Ball-like glomeruli
37	Compound glomeruli
38	Wedge-shaped glomeruli
39	Glomeruli not directly supplied by afferents (accessory glomeruli)
40	Tracts from preoral glomeruli project homolaterally
41	Tracts from preoral glomeruli project heterolaterally
42	Striate neuropil supplied by second antennae axons
43	Striate neuropil supplied by single antennae axons
44	Densely aggregated basophilic somata (globuli cells; gcs)
45	Dense neuropil in eyestalk supplied by gcs (hemiellipsoid body)
46	Dense stalk/lobed neuropil supplied by gcs, but no obvious dendrites
47	Dense stalked/lobed neuropil comprising parallel fibers
48	Dense lobed neuropil accompanied by discrete satellite lobe (lobelet)
49	Dense lobed neuropil extends one or more lobes heterolaterally
50	Dense lobed neuropil components homolateral
51	Dense lobed neuropil, lobes supplied from glomeruli
52	Dense lobed neuropil, lobes supplied by cerebral interneurons
53	Specialized dendritic neuropil surmounting dense lobed neuropil (calyx)
54	Calyx comprises separated double cups
55	Calyx comprises fused double cup
56	Calyx includes turban-like component
57	Calyx simple
58	Stalked calyx-less neuropil, but lobes elongated
59	Stalked neuropil, with swollen outgrowths (lobulate)
60	Stalked neuropil, but elongated folded
61	Stalked neuropil, but lobes divided into several parallel discrete units
62	Stalked neuropil, lobes internally coherent
63	Stalked neuropil, lobes divergent
64	Head (not calyx) of lobes supplied by visual afferents
65	Calyx supplied by optic lobe neuropils
66	Calyx supplied by striate neuropils
67	One or more lobes recurrent, everted into calyx
68	Preoral neuropils continue across brain with no unpaired medial region
69	Preoral unpaired midline neuropil columnar with < 50 columnar neurons
70	Minute, but unique preoral midline neuropil
71	Horseshoe-shaped midline neuropil dosoposterior in forebrain (arcuate body)
72	Supply to midline neuropil dorsal and heterolateral
73	Supply to midline neuropil ventral and heterolateral
74	Midline neuropil is fan-shaped or lenticular
75	Posterior mid-line neuropil with bridge between protocerebral lobes
76	Paired ball-like centers linked to mid-line neuropil
77	Midline neuropil directly supplied by optic center
78	Midline neuropil surmounted by discrete layer connected to protocerebral lobes
79	Midline neuropil supplied by paired posterior centers but no bridge
80	Midline neuropil and posterior bridge linked by chiasmata
81	Posterior bridge lateralized
82	Posterior bridge split
83	Posterior bridge isomorphically equipped with dendrites
84	Midline neuropil accompanied by anterior toroidal region
85	Anterior region of midline neuropil arch-shaped
86	Mid-line neuropil folia pronounced
87	Mid-line neuropil modestly foliate
88	Mid-line folia less than eight pairs
89	Midline folia diffuse/indistinguishable
90	Mid-line neuropil folia indistinguishable
91	simple eyes
92	Triplet ocelli
93	Ocelli flattened, paired
94	Single lens eyes
95	Multiple facet eyes (tetraconeate)
96	Stemmatal eyes sensu Paulus
97	Specialized optic neuropil absent
98	Single retinotopic neuropil
99	Two retinotopic neuropils
100	Three retinotopic neuropils
101	Tectum-like optic neuropil receiving uncrossed axons
102	Second neuropil tangentially divided into outer/inner parts (Cuccati bundle)
103	Deepest optic lobe neuropil columnar
104	Deepest optic lobe neuropil glomerular
105	Deepest optic lobe neuropil without either attributes of 98,99
106	Retinotopy coarsened 1:1+n columns in deep optic lobe neuropil
107	Two optic chiasma
108	Crossovers are chunks of axons not true chiasmata
109	Uncrossed axons amongst two retinotopic neuropils
110	Uncrossed axons amongst three retinotopic neuropils
111	Tectum-like neuropil has its perikarya ventral
112	Tectum-like neuropil has its perikarya dorsal
113	Large tangential axons in tectal optic neuropil
114	Chiasmata present but terminal optic neuropils fused to protocerebrum
115	Apposition eyes
116	Superposition eyes
117	Neural superposition eyes
118	Two halves of ventral ganglia not fused but linked by connectives

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