Central nervous system (CNS): Central nervous system consists of nerve ring and ventral nerve cord. Nerve ring consists of:
1. a pair of supra-oesophageal ganglia
2. a pair of circum-oesophageal connectives
3. a pair of sub-oesophageal ganglia
4. Supra-oesophageal ganglia or cerebral ganglia: A pair of supra-oesophageal ganglia is collectively known as the brain. Brain is present in head, above the oesophagus and between antennal bases. Each supra-oesophageal ganglion is formed by the fusion of three small ganglia – protocerebram, deutocerebrum and tritocerebrum.
5. Circum-oesophageal connectives: Supra-oesophageal ganglia are connected to sub-oesophageal ganglion by a pair of lateral nerves called as circum-oesophageal connectives. Connectives arise from supra-oesophagial ganglia.
6. Sub-oesophageal ganglia: It is a bilobed and present below the oesophagus, in head. It is also formed by the fusion of three pairs of ganglia.
7. Ventral nerve cord:
8. It arises from the sub-oesophageal ganglion. It is present along mid- ventral position, in perineural sinus.
9. It is double ventral nerve cord and consists of nine segmental, paired ganglia.
10. First three pairs of segmental ganglia are large and known as thoracic ganglia. The other six pairs of segmental ganglia are in abdomen (abdominal ganglia).
11. 6th abdominal ganglion is the largest and it is present in 7th abdominal segment.
