The typical insect brain or insect CNS consists of 105 to 106 neurons.[1]

neuropil

Various degrees of fusion of ganglia.

metathoracic ganglia in the metathorax abdominal ganglia

pars intercerebralis ventral nerve cord Corpus cardiacum corpora allata

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  • Srour, Marc (2010-05-03). "Insect Brains and Animal Intelligence". Teaching Biology. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  • Stolte, Daniel (2013-04-11). "The Strikingly Similar Brains of Flies and Men". UANews. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  • John R. Meyer (2016-03-25). "ENT 425 - Resource Library (Tutorials) The Nervous System". General Entomology. Entomology Resources at North Carolina State University. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
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  1. ^ Center, RIKEN BSI Neuroinformatics Japan. "Central Nervous System of Insects". Invertebrate Brain Platform. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  2. ^ Heisenberg, Martin (2017-06-09). "What Do the Mushroom Bodies Do for the Insect Brain? An Introduction". Learning & Memory. 5 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1101/lm.5.1.1. PMC 311238. PMID 10454369.