Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologySmith, John Bernhard
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Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Smith, John Bernhard
Insects -- Nomenclature
Setiparous: producing hair or sets.
Setireme: the hairy, oar-like legs of aquatic insects.
Setose -ous: bristly or set with bristles.
Setula: a small stiff bristle or seta: in Diptera, the small thorn at the
end of the sub-costa.
Setulose: clothed with fine seta or setulae.
Sex: as a number, six: the physical difference between male and
female: usually indicated by the sign of Mars (?) for male, and Venus
(?) for female; workers or undeveloped females have the sign of Venus
without the cross line, or a combination of the two others.
Sexuparae: that generation of plant lice which produces the true
sexes.
Shade: a cloudy, ill-defined streak or band.
Shagreened: a surface roughened with minute tooth-like projections.
Shank: = tibia; q.v.
Shard: a chitinous sheath or elytron.
Sharp: with a pointed tip or thin edge; opposed to blunt.
Sheath of penis: in Odonata, a median, hood-like piece between the
hamules, under which the penis is folded when not in use.
Shin: = tibia; q.v.
Short sector: in Odonata, = media 4 (Comst.).
Shoulder: loosely applied to an obtuse angulation; more generally to
the humeral angle of fore wings or elytra: the anterior angles of
thorax in Lepidoptera; the angles of prothorax in Heteroptera: the
lateral angles of metazona of pronotum in Orthoptera.
Sialisterium: a salivary gland.
Side: the lateral margin of the body.
Side piece: in genitalia of male Culicids the main lateral part of the
clasping organ or basal segment of clasp.
Sides of thorax: in Odonata, includes the pleura of meso- and meta-
thorax, less the meso-episterna.
Sienna: a brownish orange [brown ochre].
Sigmoid: shaped like the Greek letter sigma, or English S.
Signate -us: = with marks or spots; see notate.
Signature: a colored blotch of any size or shape.
Silaceous: = ochraceous.
Silk: the hardened salivary secretion of certain larvae, mainly of
Lepidoptera. similar material is produced by anal glands of some larva
in Neuroptera.
Silk-glands: a pair of modified salivary glands in certain larva, mostly
of Lepidoptera that secrete a viscid fluid which, on contact with the
air, hardens into a silken fibre.
Silvicolous: living in moist, shady woods.
Simple, Simplex: without process, armature, or appendage of any
kind.
Simple eyes: = ocelli; q.v.
Sinciput: in Coleoptera; that part of the vertex between the eyes.
Sinistrad: toward the left.
Sinistral: extending to or at the left from the median line.
Sinistro-caudad: extending obliquely from the left toward the tail.
Sinistro-cephalad: extending obliquely from the left toward the head.
Sinuate: cut into sinuses; applied to lines and margins with an in and
out curve.
Sinuated: winding: with the edge scooped into sinuses.
Sinuato-convex: sinuate and convex.
Sinuato-lobate: sinuate and lobed.
Sinuato-truncate: truncated, with the margin sinuate.
Sinuous: undulating; curved in and out.
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