Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology — John Shaqi
Explanation of Terms Used in EntomologySmith, John Bernhard
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Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Smith, John Bernhard
Insects -- Nomenclature
Excentric: not in the centre; revolving or arranged about a point that
is not central.
Excision: with a deep cut: a notch or other cut-out part.
Excrementaceous -titious: made up of or resembling excrement.
Excrescence: an outgrowth or elevation; usually abnormal.
Excretion: the act of getting rid of waste products: any material or
substance produced by any secretory glands or structures and which
is voided or otherwise sent out from them.
Excretory: those structures concerned in ridding the body of waste
products.
Excurrent: attenuate, narrowly prolonged.
Excurved: curved outwards.
Ex larva: from or out of the larva: usually applied to specimens that
have been bred from collected larvae.
Exochorion: that part of the chorion derived from the ectoderm: the
outer layer of the chorion.
Exochorium: Heteroptera; a narrow marginal part of the hemelytra.
Exoderm: the outer skin or crust.
Exoloma: the apical margin of the wings.
Exophytic: relating to the outside of plant tissue.
Exoskeleton: the entire body wall, to the inner side of which muscles
are attached.
Exotic: not a natives of the place where found: an introduced species:
also any species occurring in any country outside of the limits of the
country whose fauna is under consideration.
Exotoky: is applied to that form of reproduction where the eggs are
developed outside of the body of the insect and without care by the
mother see endotoky.
Ex ova: from or out of the egg: applied to specimens that have been
bred from the egg stage.
Expanded: spread or flattened out: applied to Lepidoptera when set for
the cabinet.
Expanse: the distance between the apices or other widest point of the
wings when fully spread.
Expansio alarum: the wing stretch; see expanse.
Expiratory: relating to the act of expiration, when the abdomen is
contracted and the air contained in the abdominal tracheae is
presumably forced out of them.
Explanate: spread out and flattened; applied to a margin.
Explicate: unfolded; open; without folds or plica.
Exsculptate -tus: a surface with irregular, more or less longitudinal
depressions, as if carved.
Exscutellate: having no scutel.
Exserted: protruded; projecting beyond the body or over a given point.
Exsertion: a protrusion: an extension of a line or other ornamentation
beyond its ordinary course.
Extended: spread out: not lying one upon the other.
Extense: extended: expanded.
Extension plate: a structure at the base of the pulvillus whose
function it is to extend it.
Extension sole: the pad-like pulvillus which may be extended by the
extension plate through the pressure plate.
Extensor: that which extends or straightens out; applied to muscles.
Extenuate: to make or to become weak, thin or slender.
Exterior: the outside.
Exterior margin: the outer margin; sometimes used for costal margin.
External: belonging to or on the outside.
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