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Figure 1


Fig. 1. Diagram of the multilayered structure of the insect cuticle. The shaded areas represent the single cuticle layers: non-chitinous epicuticle; procuticle consisting of exocuticle and endocuticle with chitin fibers usually oriented parallel to the surface. An epidermal cell layer underlies the endocuticle.