- posterior tentorial arms
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(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
posterior tentorial arms
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anterior tentorial arms — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) An apodeme arising from the anterior tentorial pits, meeting the posterior tentorial arm at a visible fusion point; sometimes bearing a small dorsal or ventral tentorial arm … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
tentorial bar — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The right or left half of the tentorium, consisting mainly of the united anterior and posterior arms … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
tentorial bridge — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The apices of the two posterior arms fused medially; incomplete or absent in most Diptera … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
corpotentorium — n. [L. corpus, body; tentorium, tent] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) Fusion of the anterior and posterior tentorial arms; the body of the tentorium … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
fulcro-cranial muscle — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) 1. A muscle arising from the postoccipital phragma or ridge and inserted on the fulcrum in the thysanuran Lepismodes and mayfly nymphs. 2. In the blattoid Periplaneta and lower apterygotes, a muscle arising from each of the… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
homopteran — /heuh mop teuhr euhn, hoh /, adj. 1. homopterous. n. 2. a homopterous insect. [1835 45; see HOMOPTEROUS, AN] * * * ▪ insect order Introduction any of more than 32,000 species of sucking insects, the members of which exhibit considerable… … Universalium
