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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

(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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

and sternite) as seen in most other arthropods. Generalized morphology of a pantopod pycnogonid Ventral view and leg base of Chaetonymphon spinosum The...

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

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...

2024 in arthropod paleontology is a list of new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, trilobites, and other arthropods (except insects...

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...

Cucumericrus ("cucumber-leg") is an extinct genus of stem-arthropod. The type and only species is Cucumericrus decoratus, with fossils discovered from...

"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...