The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking. Many of the terms used for arthropod leg segments (called podomeres)...

convergently lost their legs. Panarthropoda: no less than four legs. Velvet worms and some arthropods have more than a dozen legs; a few species possess...

fossil arthropods described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods of every...

word arthropod comes from the Greek ἄρθρον árthron 'joint', and πούς pous (gen. ποδός podos) 'foot' or 'leg', which together mean "jointed leg", with...

present Fourth trochanter, of archosaur leg bones Trochanter (arthropod leg), a segment of the arthropod leg Intertrochanteric crest Intertrochanteric...

the anatomy of arthropods), the term raptorial implies much the same as predatory but most often refers to modifications of an arthropod's foreleg that...

theatre organ Tibia (video game), a 1997 MMORPG Tibia (arthropod leg), a segment of the arthropod leg This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

(2009). "Spiders are special: fear and disgust evoked by pictures of arthropods" (PDF). Evolution and Human Behavior. 30: 66–73. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav...

leg swings at a time. At higher speeds, they walk in a tetrapod coordination with 2 legs paired in swing or a metachronal wave, only moving one leg at...

connective tissue in each eyelid The distal segment of an arthropod leg – see Arthropod tarsus The lower leg of a bird, also known as tarsometatarsus Tarsus, Mersin...

vertebrates and the arthropods. Important aspects of legged locomotion are posture (the way the body is supported by the legs), the number of legs, and the functional...

"daddy long-legs" is used for several species, especially Pholcus phalangioides, but is also the common name for several other arthropod groups, including...

with only a few legs attached to the ceiling. Natural predators to the giant centipedes include large birds, spiders, and arthropod-hunting mammals,...

Arthropods are covered with a tough, resilient integument, cuticle or exoskeleton of chitin. Generally the exoskeleton will have thickened areas in which...

presumably the ancestral form of compound eye. They are found in all arthropod groups, although they may have evolved more than once within this phylum...

certain limbs of some arthropods. The name comes from Ancient Greek χηλή, through Neo-Latin chela. The plural form is chelae. Legs bearing a chela are called...

carcinised decapods, the abdomen is folded under the cephalothorax. Arthropod leg Gary C. B. Poore (2004). "Glossary". Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern...

paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods. Antennae are connected to the first one or two segments of the arthropod head. They vary widely in form but...

many other arthropods, the larvae look like miniature versions of the adult, albeit with fewer legs. Young centipedes have four pairs of legs when they...

Hexapoda (from Greek for 'six legs') or hexapods comprises the largest clade of arthropods and includes most of the extant arthropod species. It includes the...

up to 10 million species. Arthropods are invertebrate animals with a chitinous exoskeleton, segmented bodies, and jointed legs. The phylum Arthropoda contains...

which in ancestral forms would have appeared more like legs than mouthparts. In general, arthropods have mouthparts for cutting, chewing, piercing, sucking...

region of the tentacular club of cephalopods and of the leg of some crustaceans (see arthropod leg). In cephalopods, the dactylus is narrow and often characterized...

entognathans). It holds the head, legs, wings and abdomen. It is also called mesosoma or cephalothorax in other arthropods. It is formed by the prothorax...

below the lateral side of the abdomen Arthropod coxa, the short most-proximal base jointed segment of the arthropod leg An orthopaedic hospital in Tampere...

-poda, "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an arthropod group which includes millipedes and other multi-legged animals. Centipedes...

"thousand", and pes, "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically...

Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida (/əˈræknɪdə/) of the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks...

The sternum (pl.: sterna) is the ventral portion of a segment of an arthropod thorax or abdomen. In insects, the sterna are usually single, large sclerites...

kneecap bone. Patella may also refer to: Patella, a segment of the arthropod leg Patella (gastropod), a genus of limpets in the family Patellidae This...