Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologySmith, John Bernhard
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Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Smith, John Bernhard
Insects -- Nomenclature
Bullule: a small blister.
Bursa: a pouch or sac: a wing pouch in male caddice flies and in
connection with a stalked hair pencil.
Bursa copulatrix: the copulatory pouch of the female in some orders;
a modification of the vagina.
C
Caducous-us: deciduous; easily detached or shed.
Caecal tubes or pouches: sac, or blind tube-like structures
surrounding the chylific ventricle at its junction with the crop, and
secreting a digestive ferment.
Caecum: a blind sac or tube-like structure serving as one of the caecal
tubes or pouches: see coecum.
Caelate: a surface with plane elevations of varying forms.
Caeruleus -eous: light sky-blue [between lavender and cobalt blue] =
coeruleus.
Caerulescent: with a tinge of sky-blue.
Caesius -eous: a pale dull blue-gray [blue-gray].
Caespiticolous: frequenting or living in grassy pastures or lawns.
Calathiform: shaped like a deep bowl.
Calcar -ium; pl. ia: a movable spur or spine-like process: specifically
the spines at the apex of a tibia.
Calcarate -us: with a movable spur or spine-like process.
Caliciform: shaped like a cup or calyx.
Calipers: the anal forceps in Dermaptera.
Calli axillary: Odonata; thickenings at the bases of the wings;
distinguished as anterior at the base of the costa, and posterior at the
base of radius + medius and cubitus: = axillary calli.
Callosity: a thick swollen lump, harder than its surroundings: =
callous: also a rather flattened elevation not necessarily harder than
the surrounding tissue.
Callous: see callosity.
Callus: a small callosity.
Caltrops spines: the branched and otherwise specialized irritating
spines in Limacodid larvae.
Calva: a skull-cap: = epicranium, q.v.
Calx: the distal end of the tibia; the curving basal portion of the first
tarsal joint.
Calyculate: applied to antennae, whose cup-shaped joints are so
arranged as to fit one into the other.
Calypter: Diptera; the alula or squama when it covers the haltere.
Calyptra: a hood or cap; see alula.
Calyptrate: those flies that have aluke or membranous scales above
the halteres.
Calyx: the cap or crown of the mushroom bodies of the procerebrum:
see also egg-calyx.
Campanulate: bell-shaped: more or less ventricose at the base and a
little recurved at the margin.
Campestral: applied to species inhabiting open fields.
Campodeiform: applied to larval forms which, in their early stages at
Least, resemble Campodea: = leptitorm.
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