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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 ...
