frontal tuft

frontal tuft
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Hymenoptera, a group of elongate simple setae and fusiform scales arising at the interocular space and the adjacent portion of the vertex.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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