Entomology

Entomology

The study of insects.

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striae

Biology; Entomology

Grooves running across or along the body: applied especially to the grooves on beetle elytra.

castes

Biology; Entomology

Groups of individuals that become irreversibly behaviorally distinct at some point prior to reproductive maturity. One of three or more distinct forms which make up the population among social ...

stylostome

Biology; Entomology

The tube formed by the host as a result of the feeding of a chigger; in secreting salivary fluids, the chigger partially digests skin tissues, which induces the host to form a proteinaceous tube ...

ovipositor

Biology; Entomology

The tubular or valved egg-laying apparatus of a female insect: concealed in many insects, but extremely large among the bush-crickets and some parasitic hymenopterans.

acrostichal aristles

Biology; Entomology

The two rows of hairs or bristles lying one on either side of the mid-line of the thorax of a true fly.

frontal bristles

Biology; Entomology

The two vertical rows of bristles running down the face of a fly from the ocelli to the antennae

type

Biology; Entomology

The type specimen of a species is the actual insect from which the original description of that species was produced. If several specimens were used for this purpose, one of them should have been ...