The Project Gutenberg EBook of Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology, by John. B. Smith potx

[...]... application, as in uncus and unci In the definition of color terms the words in brackets [ ] refer to the equivalent color as named on the plate, or the combination needed to produce it The names in parentheses ( ) are those of the writers whose definitions are used, or who have used the term in the sense defined In the terms of venation, these parentheses occur most frequently Most of the signs and... posterior division of the insect body: consists normally of nine or ten apparent segments, but actual number is a mooted question: bears no functional legs in the adult stage Abdominal: belonging or pertaining to the abdomen Abdominal feet: see pro-legs Abdominal groove : the concave lobe of the inner margin of secondaries enveloping the abdomen beneath, in some butterflies Abdominal pouch: in female Parnassiids,... ending, the difference is given after a hyphen which represents the stem word: e g., ametabola -ous; the latter in place of ametabolous, which indicates the possession of the characters peculiar to the ametabola Where there is an English and a Latin ending, the former is usually given with the word and the other is added: e g., aequilate -us, instead of aequilatus, there being no difference in the. .. added, or in addition to Accessory carinae : in Orthoptera the lateral carinae of the face Accessory cell: a cell not commonly present in the group; in some orders of definite location as, e.g in Lepidoptera, usually a small cell at the end of the subcosta, giving rise directly or indirectly to veins 7 to 10:= 1st radius 2 (Comst.); = areole Accessory glands: any glands opening into the ducts of the reproductive... Acutangulate : forming, or meeting in an acute angle Acute : pointed: terminating in or forming less than a right angle Acutilingual: with a sharp pointed tongue or mouth structure, as in some bees Acutilingues: bees with a short pointed tongue: see obtusilingues Addorsal: close to but not quite on the middle of the dorsum Addorsal line : in caterpillars, is longitudinal, a little to one side of the dorsal... feasible to determine the proper use of terms applied differently in different orders or families; that is scarcely within the scope of a work of this kind Terms used in embryological and histological study have been included only so far as seemed necessary to an understanding of the general works, and no attempt has been made to cover the terms applied to musculature and other details of microscopic... came from Professor Justus W Folsom, of Urbana, Illinois, who sent me over 2000 cards of terms collected by himself and his assistants, and these added materially at the beginning of the work A number of correspondents were good enough to send in lists of terms in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera and Neuroptera, and to refer me to literature where explanations of other special terms could... abdominal segments of caterpillars on the inner base of the leg, and correspondingly on the apodal segments; constant: is number VIII of the abdominal series (Dyar) Aeneous -eus: shining bronze or brassy Aenescent: becoming or appearing bronzed or brassy Aequale : equal Aequilate-us: of equal breadth throughout Aerial: living in the air; applied to flying insects Aeriductus: a spiracle: the tracheal, gilllike... Adherent: attached or clinging to Adipose : fat or fatty: see fat-body Adiscota: insects that develop into adults without forming imaginal discs; see discota Adminicula: supports or props: the spinous processes on the abdomen of boring and burrowing pupae Adnate : adjoining; adhering or growing together: closely connected Adpressed: laid or pressed to; contiguous Adsperse -us: with markings of closely crowded... structures of aquatic larvae: more specifically the tail-like extensions of rattailed maggots and some aquatic Hemiptera Aeroscepsin: an indefinite sense of perception supposed to be located in the antenna Aeroscepsy: The faculty of observing atmospheric changes: supposed to be located in the antenna Aerostats: a pair of large air sacs at base of abdomen in Diptera Aeruginose -us: the color of verdigris .