dorsal lateral tract of dorsal cervical fasciculus [FBbt_00047533]

Most lateral continuation of fibers from the dorsal cervical fascicle into the adult ventral nerve cord (Power, 1948. It travels dorsally and laterally across the prothoracic and mesothoracic neuromeres (Power, 1948. Some large elements enter the metathoracic neuromere and a few fibers are passed to the haltere nerve, leaving only a few small fibers to reach the dorsal parts of the abdominal neuropil (Power, 1948. It contains axons of descending neurons that innervate the neck, wing, haltere and leg neuropils (Namiki et al., 2018. (Power, 1948, Namiki et al., 2018, Boerner and Duch, 2010, Court et al., 2020)