Abstract
The cerebral origins and axonal trajectories of neurons projecting to the retrocerebral complex of the cricket, Teleogryllus commodus, were examined in silver-intensified nickel preparations. Spatially separate groups of somata in the pars intercerebralis (PI) and in the pars lateralis (PL), commonly accepted as neurosecretory loci, were found to give rise to axons which terminate in the nervus corporis allati 2, the corpus allatum, or the corpus cardiacum. Additional findings demonstrated a distinct group of somata from the PI whose axons run in the esophageal nerve (stomatogastric nervous system), nine somata in the subesophageal ganglion with axons projecting into the nervus corporis allati 2, and also a small cluster of tritocerebral perikarya with axons terminating in the corpus cardiacum. Somata residing in the PI and PL were found to be compartmentally organized based upon the retrocerebral destinations of their axons. Possible functional consequences of these results with respect to the insect neurosecretory system are discussed.
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