Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologySmith, John Bernhard
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Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Smith, John Bernhard
Insects -- Nomenclature
Procerebrum: the anterior part of the brain, formed by the ganglion of
the first primary segment; also termed ocular lobe, froth part it
innervates. Process: a prolongation of the surface, margin, or an
appendage: any prominent portion of the body not otherwise
definable.
Process of labrum: in bees = appendicle: q.v.
Procidentia: the narrow projecting tip of 7th dorsal segment in
Nematinae.
Proclinate: directed forward; applied to hair or bristles.
Proctodaeum: the invagination of epiblast that produces the anus and
intestine as far forward as and including malpighian tubes.
Proculiform or Poculiform: hollow, cylindrical, with a hemispherical
base, the sides at top straight goblet-shaped.
Procumbent: trailing; prostrate; lying flat.
Produced: drawn out; prolonged; extended from.
Proeminent: said of the head when it is horizontal and does not form
an angle with the thorax.
Profile: the outline as seen from the side.
Profound, Profundus: deep.
Prognathus: having the jaws directed forward.
Progoneate: with the genital opening on an anterior body segment.
Progonia: the anterior angle of the secondaries.
Proleg: any process or appendage that serves the purpose of a leg:
specifically the fleshy unjointed abdominal legs of caterpillars and
certain saw-fly larvae: = abdominal feet: false legs.
Proloma: the anterior margin of the secondaries.
Prolonged: extended or lengthened beyond ordinary limits.
Promeros: the first abdominal segment in Lepidoptera.
Prominent: raised or produced beyond the level or margin: standing
out in relief by color or otherwise: conspicuous.
Promuscidate: with proboscis or extended mouth structure.
Promuscis: an extended mouth structure: has been applied to the long
tongue of bees and to the rostrate structure in Hemiptera.
Pronotal carina: in Orthoptera, the main or median carina on
pronotum.
Pronotum: the upper or dorsal surface of the prothorax.
Pronucleus: the nucleus of male and female elements, spermatozoa
and ova, the union of which forms the nucleus of a fertilized ovum.
Pronymph: is that stage in certain inctabolous insects in which the
larval tissues are completely broken down, and the imaginal tissues
are just beginning to build up.
Proparaptera: the paraptera of the prothorax: the terms erroneously
applied in this connection.
Propedes: = prolegs: q.v.
Prophragma: the anterior dividing wall of meso-thorax, which is horny
and, at its upper edge, bears the connecting membrane between
pro- and mesothorax.
Prop-leg: = pro-leg; q.v.
Propleura: the lateral portions of prothorax.
Propleural bristles: in Diptera, are situated immediately above the
front coxa: = prothoracic bristle; q.v.
Propneustic: larval forms in which only the most anterior spiracles
occur.
Propodeon: = propodeum.
Propodeum: in Hymenoptera, that part of thorax just above insertion
of abdomen, and really the first abdominal segment: see median
segment.
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