- subgenital plate
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(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
subgenital plate
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styliger plate — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Ephemeroptera, a sclerite on the posterior portion of sternum 9, variable in shape, which on the posterior margin gives rise to a pair of slender and usually segmented appendages called forceps or claspers; a subgenital… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
orthopteran — /awr thop teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. orthopterous. n. 2. an orthopterous insect. [1895 1900; < NL Orthopter(a) (see ORTHOPTERON) + AN] * * * ▪ insect Introduction broadly, any member of one of four insect orders. Orthopteran has come to be regarded… … Universalium
hypandrium — n.; pl. dria [Gr. hypo, under; aner, male] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The plate below the genitalia of males, usually in abdominal sternum 8 or 9; see subgenital plate … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
egg guide — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) A median caudal process of the subgenital plate … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
hypovalvae — n. pl. [Gr. hypo, under; L. valva, leaf of a folding door] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Mecoptera, a bi or trilobed subgenital plate formed from the larval ix sternum … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
ovivalvula — n. [L. ovum, egg; dim. valva, leaf of a folding door] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In female Heteroptera and Ephemeroptera, a subgenital plate … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
pallium — n. [L. pallium, mantle] 1. The mantle of a bivalve Mollusca or a Brachiopoda. 2. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In certain Orthoptera (Caelifera), a membrane from the free margin of the subgenital plate covering the retracted phallus … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
vulvar lamina — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Odonata, a subgenital plate of the 8th abdominal sternite … 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
