urticating hairs

urticating hairs
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In some caterpillars and adults, bristles with minute lateral points producing marked irritation upon contact, whether due to mechanical action alone or presence of poisonous secretion.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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