Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologySmith, John Bernhard
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Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Smith, John Bernhard
Insects -- Nomenclature
Workers: the undeveloped females in the social Hymenoptera; also
those sexually undeveloped Termites that are not soldiers.
X
Xanthophyll: the yellow of autumn leaves; one of the substances
found in the blood of insects.
Xenobiosis: see symbiosis.
Xerophilous: applied to species living in dry places.
Xylophaga: wood-eaters: applied in several orders.
Xylophagous: feeding in or upon woody tissue.
Xyphus: a spinous or triangular process of the meso-sternum in many
Hemiptera, and some other insects.
Y
Yellow: used without modification is sulphur or lemon yellow.
Yolk: the nutritive matter of an egg as distinguished from the living,
formative material; = deutoplasm.
Z
Zona: a belt or zone; as of distribution.
Zonite: = arthromere or somite; q.v.
Zooenite or Zooenule: = zonite.
Zygoptera: those Odonata, having the fore and hind wings subequal in
width, venation comprising a quadrilateral, not a triangle; nymphs
with caudal tracheal gills.
ADDENDA.
Calacobiosis: see symbiosis.
Cleptobiosis: see symbiosis.
Dulosis: see symbiosis.
Coxal file: in some aquatic Coleoptera a series of striations just above
the hind coxa of male and, perhaps, a stridulating organ.
Coxal plates: plate-like expansions or dilations of the coxa: specifically
in aquatic Coleoptera on the posterior pair.
Ecto-parasite: one that is attached to the external surface of the host.
Ento-parasite: one that feeds within the body of the host.
Embioptera: an ordinal term proposed for the Neuropterous family
Embidae.
Hamabiosis: see symbiosis.
Heliophobic: loving darkness: applied to species that shun the light,
like, e.g. Termites.
Heliotactic: light loving: applied to species that live in the open and in
daylight.
Lestobiosis: see symbiosis.
Meron: in Neuroptera, a sclerite posterior to the coxa and below the
epimeron: corresponds to the trochantine in Lepidoptera.
Metasternal wing: in some aquatic Coleoptera a leaf-like expansion
above the coxal plates.
Myrmecophily: is the relation existing between ants and those guests
that seek their company primarily for their own individual advantage.
Phylacobiosis: see symbiosis.
Prosternal process: in aquatic Coleoptera a modification of the
prosternum used in the differentiation of species.
Sub-clypeal pump: in some Diptera, the enlarged, more or less bulb-
like structure at the anterior entrance of the oesophagus.
Sub-clypeal tube: in Diptera: see pharynx.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
PLATE 1. Structures of the External Body Wall.
1. Harpalus caliginosas showing the underside, and the head from
above, to show the regions and the position of the sclerites.
2. Thorax of a Dipteron to show location of bristles.
3. Lateral view of a denuded Lepidopteron to show arrangement of
sclerites.
4. Abdominal segment of a caterpillar to show the position of the
tubercles.
5. Lateral view of a dragon fly to show the body sclerites.
All the abbreviations used in this plate are readily understood.
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