Entomology

Entomology

The study of insects.

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Supplementary reproductives

Biology; Entomology

In termites the caste of males and females with short wings, light pigmentation, and small compound eyes. The females lay eggs in the colony supplementing the work of the queen.

Sub-species

Biology; Entomology

A sub-division of a species, usually inhabiting a particular area: visibly different from other populations of the same species but still able to interbreed with them.

Sub-marginal Cells

Biology; Entomology

Cells lying just behind the stigma in the hymenopteran forewing: important in the identification of bees and sphecid wasps.

Found only among the mayflies, the sub-imago or dun is the winged insect which emerges from the nymphal skin. It is rather dull in colour, but very soon moults again - the only example of a winged ...

Subcosta

Biology; Entomology

Usually the first of the longitudinal veins behind the front edge of the wing, although it is often missing or very faint: abbreviated to Sc.

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 ...