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Entomology

The study of insects.

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Entomology

fronto-orbital bristles

Biology; Entomology

The short row of bristles on each side of a fly's head between the eye and the frontal bristles.

dorsal ocellus

Biology; Entomology

The simple eye in adult insects and in nymphs and naiads.

stemma

Biology; Entomology

The simple eye in holometabolous larvae. Also called lateral ocellus.

lateral ocellus

Biology; Entomology

The simple eye in holometabolous larvae. Also called stemma (pl., stemmata).

pseudovipositor

Biology; Entomology

The slender tube to which the posterior part of the abdomen is reduced in the female of certain insects.

anal angle

Biology; Entomology

The small apical area enclosed by the inner and outer margins of the hindwing.

tymbal

Biology; Entomology

The sound-producing 'drum-skin' of a cicada.

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