mesopleural ridge

mesopleural ridge
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Diptera, the pleural ridge marked externally by the mesopleural suture, between pleural apophyseal pit above the midcoxal articulation to the base of the wing.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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