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    This glossary of entomology describes terms used in the formal study of insect species by entomologists. abbreviate(d) (adjective) Of an organ or member:...
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    Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other...
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  • Thumbnail for Extatosoma tiaratum
    expansions on the face and legs, including a tuft of spines on the conical occiput of the hypognathous head". As mentioned, the wings of the female are too...
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    Toxomerus politus (category Insects described in 1823)
    the antenna. The eyes are narrowly holoptic anteriorly in the male. The occiput is black except narrowly yellow ventrally, silver pollinose, white pilose...
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    In insects, the abdomen contains the insect's digestive tract and reproductive organs, it consists of eleven segments in most orders of insects though...
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  • Gymnochiromyia flavella (category Insects described in 1848)
    The insect is 1.5 to 2 mm. long and yellow in colour. Its head is characterized by: a transversely oval outline of the compound eyes, a convex occiput, closely...
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    black hair. Numerous bristles are present on the edge of the scutellum. Occiput has no yellow hairiness. Eyes are bare and the cheeks under the eyes are...
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    Red imported fire ant (category Insects used as insect pest control agents)
    shade with the occiput. The scapes and funiculi range from being the same colour as the head or shares the same shade with the occiput. Light-coloured...
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    yellow throat and face, where the yellow patch ranges on each side of the occiput. The yellow feathers continue down to a form a thin band around the neck...
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    skull with an uneven distribution, highly accumulated in the forehead and occiput but not in other regions.  Along with the long hyoid bone “safety belt”...
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    Toxomerus marginatus (category Insects described in 1822)
    the posterior margin at or above the level of the antenna, is bare. The occiput is black and silvery-golden pollinose, with white-yellow pilose. Thorax...
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    Parcoblatta caudelli (category Insects described in 1917)
    clay-yellow head, underside, and legs. The back of its abdomen, pronotum disc, occiput (X), and a transverse bar in the middle of its face are a brownish-yellow...
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    horizons as the "Fish Bed" of the Shales With Beef Member. Numerous species of insect are known from concretions, predominately in the Black Ven Marl Member....
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    Orchelimum gladiator (category Insects described in 1891)
    20 millimeters long. The species is pale green with dark brown on its occiput and pronotum. The amount of brown varies per each individual specimen,...
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    Bombus fervidus (category Insects described in 1798)
    drones (see table below). The first four abdominal tergites are yellow. The occiput and face are black, and have yellow pleurae extending to or nearly to the...
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    Helophilus fasciatus (category Insects described in 1849)
    and often somewhat reddish, the polished triangle chiefly blackish. The occiput is yellow to greyish pollinose and has yellow pile. The front is black...
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  • Morphology of Diptera (category Insect anatomy)
    the vertex and the occiput and near the upper corner of the eyes; postvertical bristles are located behind the ocelli on the occiput near the median line...
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    Panorpa cognata (category Insects of Europe)
    that of a scorpion's stinger. In these slender, small insects the back part of the head (occiput) is reddish, while in all other species it is usually...
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    Balta bicolor (category Insects of Queensland)
    identified in New Zealand since 2009. Balta bicolor has a relatively pale face, occiput and interocular area, with dark antennae. It is visually similar to Ellipsidion...
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    Elgiva cucularia (category Insects described in 1767)
    antennae and the edges of the compound eyes, and in the centre of the occiput. The third antenna segment is a little shorter than the second. The mesonotum...
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    longitudinal rows of dorsal scales and 46 to 54 dorsal scales from the occiput to the base of the tail (Brown 1950). Osteologically, it has supranasal...
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    Parhelophilus versicolor (category Insects described in 1787)
    There is no posteroventral tubercle at base of Femur 3. Face is convex. Occiput has yellow hairs only. Reemer (2000) figures the male genitalia. The larva...
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    Harpegnathos saltator (category Insects of India)
    constriction between the basal two segments. A small median carina is behind the occiput. Smooth and shining. Metanotum, pedicel and a part of the sides of the...
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  • has media related to Odonata. Insect morphology Insect physiology Insect ecology Insect flight Entomology Prehistoric insect Suhling, F.; Sahlén, G.; Gorb...
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    smooth dome on the top. The back of the skull had a thick "shelf" over the occiput, and it had a thick ridge over the eyes. Much of the skull was ornamented...
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    Venezuela). Mesopeltita truncatipennis has a shiny black head and thorax. The occiput is separated from the vertex by a sharp carina and the antennal funicle...
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    the left prefrontal; the left postorbital; the braincase including the occiput; both dentaries (the front bones of the lower jaw); various bones from...
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    features of the oxyaenids include: A small braincase low in the skull. The occiput wide at base and narrowing dorsally (to give it a triangular shape). The...
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    polygonal scales, intermixed with enlarged tubercles on the temple and occiput; rostral sub-pentagonal, twice as broad as high, with, median cleft above;...
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    Ilione albiseta (category Insects described in 1763)
    is 8 to 11.2mm and the basic colour is yellowish-brown. The spot on the occiput , the spots at the base of the frontal orbital setae and the almost triangular...
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