Insects

Insects

Any of numerous usually small arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having two pairs of wings.

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Subimaginal

Animals; Insects

Pertaining to the subimago, the first imaginal instar of mayflies.

Cercus

Animals; Insects

A sensory appendage at the end of an insect sometimes modified to grasp.

Tegmen

Animals; Insects

The leathery forewing of a grasshopper or similar insect, such as a cockroach

Ciliation

Animals; Insects

Synonym of chaetotaxy, namely the description of the arrangement of setae.

Telofilum

Animals; Insects

The median tail filament, being a prolongation of tergum X1.

Circulus

Animals; Insects

An adhesive organ on the abdominal venter of Pseudococcidae.

Tenaculum

Animals; Insects

In Collembola, a minute appendage with two divergent prongs, situated medially on the ventral surface of the third abdominal segment, serving to hold the furcula in place.