tarsus which can be from three to seven segments, each referred to as a tarsomere. Except in species in which legs have been lost or become vestigial through...

tarsus, with the tarsus in most instances being subdivided into five tarsomeres. At the tip of the limb is a pair of claws, and between these are cushion-like...

A male Phalangium opilio, showing the long legs and the tarsomeres (the many small segments making up the end of each leg)...

fore tarsomere is broadened slightly past the base, is parallel-sided, and is slightly narrower than the fore tibia. The remaining fore tarsomeres are...

basal tarsomeres of the prolegs and midlegs being weakly dilated, and the protarsal claws being unequal and much shorter than the terminal tarsomere. In...

last tarsomere of each leg is largely blackish, and sometimes the first and second tarsomeres have brown or black apices (in R. haraldi all tarsomeres are...

forelegs and middle legs, only the first three tarsomeres have the ring of white scales, whereas tarsomere V on the hind legs is completely white. The femur...

long basal piece is composed of three united tarsomeres, leaving the fourth and the fifth. The basal tarsomere is sometimes conspicuously enlarged and is...

reveals five articulated tarsomeres and paired curved claws. Males and females have an adhesive setae covering the first three tarsomeres. The fourth is hidden...

subfamilies Gonatocerinae and Mymarinae based on the number of segments (tarsomeres) in the tarsi. Both systems included further tribal categories. A fossil...

ventrally divergent, and mandibles have two or more teeth. All legs have five tarsomeres and the protibial spur is stout and curved. The metasoma has a syntergum...

a liquid form which they then suck up. The tarsus has three segments (tarsomeres). at Mumbai Shield-backed bug (Graptocoris aulicus) nymph, Uganda Chrysocoris...

parasternites II and III narrowed and nearly straight, and with the setae of the tarsomeres following the line of the tibial setae. Unlike giant water bugs in the...

have three teeth. Notauli complete. In most genera, all legs have five tarsomeres, except for Odontofroggatia and Josephiella, which have four-segmented...

(the first segment at most slightly longer than wide) and the fourth tarsomeres of the mid and hind legs being symmetrical. Polistes show sexual dimorphism...

the insect) that are divided into 2 segments, or tarsomeres; other genera in the tribe have 3 tarsomeres in each tarsus. There are about 15 or 16 species...

postfemur/telofemur (=femur), patella (=tibia 1), tibia (tibia 2) and 2 tarsomeres (=tarsus and propodus) in origin. The leg segmentation of Paleozoic taxa...

II–IV with the tarsus having a specific pattern of three subsegments (tarsomeres). The Serikodiastida (Greek for "silk workers") share the ability to produce...

males and females the legs are short and sturdy, with an enlarged basal tarsomere on the front pair, containing the silk-producing glands; the mid and hind...

southern Europe to Myanmar) has narrower light stripes and the first tarsomere on the foreleg is longer than the claw (almost equal in L. indicus). Kirkaldyia...

marginal setae; Mandibles have three or four teeth; All legs have five tarsomeres. Diparidae consists of 11 genera: Cerodipara Chimaerolelaps Conodipara...

and pad-like; it covers much of the mesopleural area. Legs have five tarsomeres; the protibial spur is stout and curved and a longitudinal basitarsal...

one characteristic of most adults is having 5 tarsomeres on the fore- and midlegs, and 4 tarsomeres on the hindleg (tarsal formula 5-5-4). Occasionally...

antennal scape elongated, longer than the pedicel, and the male hind first tarsomere enlarged. Desmomyia are mid-sized flies of about 5 to 7 mm and of grey...

metatibia black and yellow biannulate; metatarsus entirely black, basal tarsomere thick. A rather wide semi-circular area posterior of the lunula is non-pollinose...

are 5 tarsomeres (individual subsegments of the feet/tarsi). One or more of these subsegments on each leg is typically lobed, and the 4th tarsomere is normally...

front tarsomere is subtriangular, truncate apically, about twice as wide as the apex of the tibia, and as long as wide. The second front tarsomere is nearly...

pointed apicoventral dens; metatarsus entirely black with thick basal tarsomere. The arista is long and pilose, about 2.5 times as long as the basal flagellomere...

yellowish brown, shiny, trapezoid; pro- and mesoleg yellowish; protarsus and tarsomere 5 on mesotarsus brown; metaleg with coxa brownish, trochanter yellow,...

walking or perching. In the Lycaenidae, the tarsus is unsegmented, as the tarsomeres are fused, and, tarsal claws are absent. The aroliar pad (a pad projecting...