Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologySmith, John Bernhard
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Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Smith, John Bernhard
Insects -- Nomenclature
Trivial: applied to a name, means specific as opposed to generic, or
popular as opposed to technical.
Trivittate: with three stripes or vitta.
Trochalopoda: Heteroptera in which the posterior coxae are nearly
globose and the articulation is a ball and socket joint: see pagiopoda.
Trochanter: a sclerite, sometimes divided, between the coxa and femur
sometimes fused with the femur.
Trochanterellus: see apophysis.
Trochantine: the basal part of the trochanter when it is two-jointed: in
Coleoptera, a piece often present on the outer side of and sometimes
movable on the coxa; also the small sclerite connecting the coxa with
the sternum in Dytiscidae: in Neuroptera and Trichoptera the
posterior separated part of the coxa: in Orthoptera, a narrow
longitudinal sclerite between mandible and gena.
Trochiformis: cylindro-conic.
Trochlea: the thickened base of the hind wings in Cicada: in
Trichoptera a small elliptical space at base of hind wing behind origin
of median vein.
Trochlearis: pulley-shaped; like a cylinder contracted medially.
Trochus: that part of an articulated body inserted between the joints.
Trophi: the mouth parts collectively, including the labrum: see buccal
appendages.
Trophobiosis: see Symbiosis.
Tropical: is that faunal region which covers the southern part of the
peninsula of Florida, the greater part of Central America, the lowlands
of southern Mexico south of the table land, and a narrow strip on
each side of Mexico which follows the coast northward into the United
States.
Tropico-politan: occurring in all tropical regions.
Trumpets: breathing tubes of mosquito pupae.
Truncate: cut off squarely at tip.
Truncature: the truncation or point squarely cut off.
Truncus: the trunk or thorax.
Trunk: the thorax as a whole: the body.
Tryptic: acting like tripsin, the proteolytic ferment of the pancreatic
fluid.
Tube: a slender, hollow, cylindrical body: specifically applied to the
anal siphon or respiratory tube of mosquito larvae.
Tubercle: a little solid pimple or small chitinous button: really a ring,
which may or may not give rise to a seta.
Tubercles: on the thoracic and abdominal segments of caterpillars are
anterior trapezoidal; posterior trapezoidal; lateral; posterior stigmatal;
anterior stigmatal; sub-primary subventral; pedal and adventral: all
of which see.
Tubercula: an elevated triangular process at the anterior angle of the
thorax specifically in Hymenoptera.
Tuberculate -ose: formed like a tubercle: a surface covered with
tubercles.
Tubercule -ulum: a small tubercle.
Tuberculiform: shaped like a pimple or tubercle.
Tuberculose -ous: covered or set with tubercles.
Tubulifera: Hymenoptera, in which the terminal segments of abdomen
are retracted, but may be extended, tube-like: Thysanoptera in which
there is no ovipositor and the terminal segments of abdomen are
tubular.
Tubulous -ose: formed like a tube: fistulous.
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