stylopization

Stylopization may so change a species that it can not be identified unless one understands the direction of the changes under such conditions.

1909, William Dwight Pierce, A monographic revision of the twisted winged insects comprising the order Strepsiptera Kirby:

Parasitization by Strepsiptera (stylopization) may affect morphology and behavior of the host.

2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, page 3598:

(entomology) Parasitization by strepsipteran insects.


triungulinid

The triungulinids may be forcibly removed by the bee, as was observed by Smith (1859) with regard to Andrena trimmerana.

(entomology) The first-instar larva of a strepsipteran insect.


wingpad

(entomology) The part of a pupa that develops into a wing in the adult insect.


euplantula

(entomology) A broadened variant of the plantula found on the lower surface of the middle tarsomere of an insect's leg which acts as a tarsal attachment point.


buzz pollination

(entomology) A technique of pollen collection practised by certain bee species in which the bee holds the flower and vibrates so as to shake pollen free.


aschizan

en-adj

aschizan (comparative more aschizan, superlative most aschizan)

more aschizan (comparative)
most aschizan (superlative)

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the dipteran section Aschiza.


furcasternum

(entomology) The posterior part of an insect sternum bearing the furca


proctiger

(entomology) The terminal segment of an insect's abdomen, containing the anus.


epiproct

(entomology) Either of the lateral lobes of the proctiger.


microtomentum

However, you can still separate these genera from Lucilia because the thorax of each genus (Cynomya and Cyanus) is covered with whitish microtomentum while it is not in Lucilia.

2012, Terry Whitworth, Tips For Using The Keys More Effectively And Errata:

(entomology) A very fine pubescence that appears as a color pattern except under high magnification.


microtomentose

microtomentose (comparative more microtomentose, superlative most microtomentose)

more microtomentose (comparative)
most microtomentose (superlative)

(entomology) Covered with microtomentum.


postfrons

(entomology) The part of the frons of an insect above or behind the antennae.


prefrons

(entomology) The part of the frons of an insect ahead of or below the antennae.


subcallus

It is interesting to note that the presumed male of this species does not have shiny anterior tentorial pits but does have a pair of dark brown spots on the subcallus, these lacking in the female.

1985, Richard C. Wilkerson, “A new species of Stenotabanus (Brachytabanus) (Diptera: Tabanidae) with a key to the species of the subgenus”, in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, volume 87, number 1, page 223:

(entomology) The lowest of the calli on the frons of some species of horse flies.


phallapodeme

Internally, the male genitalia are made up of a long rod-like phallapodeme (fused to the hypandrium anteriorly), a broad hypandrium (attached to sternite 10) and pregonite (possibly the postgonite), a small ejaculatory apodeme, and a flat basiphallus (forming a ring with the base of the phallapodeme through which the ejaculatory duct passes) that is fused to the distiphallus.

2009, “Acartophthalmidae”, in Tree of Life web project:

(entomology) A sclerite articulating with the phallus.


minuten pin

The holotype is double mounted (minuten pin in a block of plastic), is in excellent condition, and is deposited in the USNM.

2012 December 5, Wayne N. Mathis, Tadeusz Zatwarnicki, “A revision of the New World species of Gymnoclasiopa Hendel (Diptera: Ephydridae)”, in ZooKeys, volume 248, →DOI, pages 1–69:

(entomology) A small, headless insect pin.


Malaise trapping

Particularly in poorly known groups like Australian acalyptrate flies in which most species are undescribed, Malaise trapping will help us determine what taxa are here now and to gather vouchers for future comparisons.

2020, Keith M Bayless, David K Yeates, “Australia Malaise trapping disaster update”, in Fly Times, volume 64:

(entomology) Collecting insects with a Malaise trap.


katepimeron

en-noun

katepimeron (usually uncountable, plural katepimera)

From kata-, variant of cata- + epimeron.

(entomology) The lower part of the epimeron.


SLAM trap

(entomology) Acronym of sea, land, and air Malaise trap


macrotrichium

macro- + Ancient Greek θρίξ (thríx, “hair”) + -ium

(entomology) An innervated hair on the integument or wing membrane of an insect.


corpotentorium

com

Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">corpus</i>

The large bar extending cephalad from each end of the corpotentorium to a pretentorina is a pretentorium.

1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect-anatomy:

In more primitive insects a median plate called the corpotentorium is sometimes formed between the two sides of the tentorium, but this plate is poorly developed or absent in Diptera.

1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 12:

(entomology) A median ventral plate of the tentorium of some insects.


circumfilum

That circumfilum is bandlike on the first five flagellomeres but absent beyond.

1993 June, Raymond J. Gagné, Fred D. Bennett, “Two New Species of Lestodiplosini (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Preying on Homoptera and Thysanoptera in Southern Florida”, in The Florida Entomologist, volume 76, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 341–348:

(entomology) A thread-like sensory organ found on nodes of the antennae of some midges in family Cecidomyiidae.


anepimeron

en-noun

anepimeron (usually uncountable, plural anepimera)

(entomology) The upper part of the epimeron.


anepisternum

(entomology) The uppser part of the episternum of an insect.


pteropleural

(entomology) Related to the pteropleuron.


pteropleural

(entomology) Short for pteropleural bristle, a bristle arising from the pteropleuron.


subtornal

en-adj

subtornal (comparative more subtornal, superlative most subtornal)

more subtornal (comparative)
most subtornal (superlative)

(entomology) Located below the tornus of the wing.


anal vein

(entomology) A vein running along the dorsum of the wing.


shadowdragon

(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Neurocordulia, family Corduliidae.


boghaunter

(entomology) Either of two species of dragonfly of the genus Williamsonia, family Corduliidae.


duskhawk

(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae.


tigertail

(entomology) Any of various dragonflies of the family Synthemistidae, having black and yellow patterned tails.


riverdamsel

(entomology) Any of various Australia damselflies of the genus Pseudagrion (of which, African species are named sprites).


hypopleural

The key does not include any species without hypopleural bristles.

1926, John Merton Aldrich, “Notes on Muscoid Flies with Retracted Hind Crossvein, with Key and Several New Genera and Species”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 52, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 7–28:

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the hypopleuron.


palemouth

(entomology) A species of libellulid dragonfly, Brachydiplax denticauda, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands, having a blue abdomen, dark red eyes and yellow mouthparts.


common glider

(entomology) A libellulid dragonfly, of species Tramea loewii, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Pacific.


pollen basket

(entomology) An arrangement of hairs on part of the tibia on the hind legs of certain species of bees used in transporting pollen.


overscaling

(entomology) In moths, a covering of extra scales.


dartwhite

(entomology) Any butterfly of the genus Catasticta, family Pieridae, of the neotropics.


furniture beetle

en-noun

furniture beetle (plural furniture beetles)

(entomology) Any of various species of wood-boring beetle, the larvae of which are a type of woodworm, especially Anobium punctatum, the common furniture beetle.


bluestreak

(entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Lestoidea (not to be confused with superfamily Lestoidea), endemic to Australia.


shutwing

(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Cordulephya, endemic to eastern Australia.


urfly

(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Archaeophya, endemic to Australia.


mistfly

(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Pseudocordulia, endemic to tropical northeastern Australia.


streamcruiser

(entomology) A species of dragonfly, Hesperocordulia berthoudi, endemic to southwest Western Australia.


swiftwing

(entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Lathrocordulia, endemic to Australia.


rainforest mystic

rainforest mystic (plural rainforest mystics)

(entomology) A species of dragonfly, Austrophya mystica, endemic to northeastern Australia.


polylecty

The two most basal bee families, Dasypodaidae and Mellitidae, are predominantly composed of pollen specialists, indicating that oligolecty might be the ancestral state in bees[…]. In the western Palaearctic anthidiine bees, several transitions from oligolecty to polylecty were found, but none from polylecty to oligolecty[…].

2020, R. G. Vastrad, “Specialized Bees Fail to Develop on Non-host Pollen: Do Plants Chemically Protect Their Pollen?”, in A Study of Floral Specialization in Solitary Bees, Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu, →ISBN, page 31:

(entomology) The condition of being polylectic.


grasshawk

/ˈɡɹɑːshɔːk/

(entomology) Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.


petaltail

(entomology) Any dragonfly in the family Petaluridae; a petalurid.


Australasian slimwing

Australasian slimwing (plural Australasian slimwings)

(entomology) A subspecies of libellulid dragonfly, Lathrecista asiatica festa, endemic to northern Australia.


entomovirological

(entomology, virology) Relating to entomovirology


orange staff sergeant

orange staff sergeant (plural orange staff sergeants)

(entomology) A nymphalid butterfly of species Athyma cama, of tropical and subtropical Asia.


scarlet percher

scarlet percher (plural scarlet perchers)

(entomology) A species of libellulid dragonfly, Diplacodes haematodes, of mainland Australia, New Guinea, Timor, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia; the males are bright red.


green marsh hawk

green marsh hawk (plural green marsh hawks)

(entomology) A species of libellulid dragonfly, Orthetrum sabina, of Eurasia, Australia, and Micronesia.


slender skimmer

slender skimmer (plural slender skimmers)


pygmy percher

(entomology) A species of small libellulid dragonfly, Nannodiplax rubra, of Australia and New Guinea.


chalky percher

(entomology) A species of libellulid dragonfly, Diplacodes trivialis, of Asia, Australia, and New Guinea.


painted grasshawk

painted grasshawk (plural painted grasshawks)

(entomology) A species of libellulid dragonfly, Neurothemis stigmatizans, of northern Australia.


slimwing

Australasian slimwing
Australasian slimwing

(entomology) An Australasian slimwing dragonfly.


pale-spotted emperor

pale-spotted emperor (plural pale-spotted emperors)

(entomology) A widespread species of large aeshnid dragonfly, Anax guttatus, of Asia, Australia, and Oceania.


blue skimmer

(entomology) A species of libellulid dragonfly, Orthetrum caledonicum, of Australia, the Lesser Sundas, New Guinea, New Caledonia, the males of which are predominantly light blue in colour.


colourful bluetail

colourful bluetail (plural colourful bluetails)

colourful bluetails (plural)
colorful bluetail (alternative)

(entomology) A species of coenagrionid damselfly, Ischnura pruinescens, of northeastern Australia and New Guinea.


red swampdragon

red swampdragon (plural red swampdragons)

(entomology) A libellulid dragonfly, Agrionoptera insignis allogenes, a subspecies of the grenadier, of Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.


striped swampdragon

striped swampdragon (plural striped swampdragons)

(entomology) A libellulid dragonfly, Agrionoptera longitudinalis biserialis, of Australia and New Guinea.


graphic flutterer

graphic flutterer (plural graphic flutterers)

(entomology) A libellulid dragonfly, Rhyothemis graphiptera, of Australia, the Moluccas, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.


thyridial

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the thyridium.


thyridium

From Latin thyridium, from Ancient Greek θυρίδιον (thurídion), diminutive of θύρᾱ (thúrā, “door”).

(entomology) A spot in the wing veins of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera and Trichoptera.

(entomology) A spot on both sides of the second abdominal tergite in ichneumonids


slantface

(entomology) Any of various orthopterans having heads with a long flat sloping underside.


sonifaction

(entomology) The production of sound by insects (typically by stridulation).


orange ringlet

(entomology) A species of satyrine butterfly with orange wings, Hypocysta adiante, endemic to northern Australia.


Darwin ringlet

(entomology) A subspecies of the orange ringlet butterfly, Hypocysta adiante antirius, endemic to the Darwin region of northern Australia.


blue marsh hawk

blue marsh hawk (plural blue marsh hawks)

(entomology) A species of libellulid dragonfly, Orthetrum glaucum, of tropical and subtropical Asia, having a blue abdomen and thorax.


Australian emperor

Australian emperor (plural Australian emperors)

(entomology) A species of dragonfly, Anax papuensis, of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia.


threadtail

(entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Nososticta, endemic to Australasia.


disjugal

(entomology) Relating to the plane or furrow separating the ancestral prosoma and opisthosoma in some mites


calliferous

/kəˈlɪfəɹəs/

Borrowed from New Latin callifer, equivalent to callus + -i- + -ferous.

Rumex (Lapathum) Daiwoo (Sieb.) Makino nom. nov.
Inner perianth 3, erect-patent, longer than the outer ones, glabrous, herbaceous; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, membranaceous and more or less minutely erose on the margin, with anastomosing veins, 2½-3 mm. long, after anthesis gradually enlarged and tinged with rose-colour, in fruit deltoid-ovate to ovate-reniform, minutely denticulate on the margin, obtuse, subcrispate, reticulated-veined, 4–8 mm. wide, the midrib narrowly prominent below but not calliferous, or sometimes hardly and minutely unicalliferous.

1901, Tomitaro Makino, Observations on the flora of Japan. Fasciculus 1. Reprinted from the Botanical Magazine, Tokyo Vol. XV. 1901, Tokyo, page 52:

(normally botany or entomology) Bearing or producing calluses.


Taeniopteryx nebulosa

(entomology) A stonefly of the springtime, mainly found on slow-flowing lowland streams.


myrmeleontoid

(entomology) A lacewing in the superfamily Myrmeleontoidea.


physonome

(entomology) A blister-shaped area of damage on a leaf caused by a leaf miner.


licinine

(entomology) Any member of the Licininae subfamily of beetles.


ceratitidine

en-adj

ceratitidine (comparative more ceratitidine, superlative most ceratitidine)

more ceratitidine (comparative)
most ceratitidine (superlative)

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Ceratitidi</i>

The research included development of a diagnostic tool for identification of ceratitidine tephritids, and we had an opportunity to test this on maggots that were intercepted from a shipment originating in Europe.

(Can we date this quote?), United States Department of Agriculture, AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS:

(entomology) Related to flies of the tephritid tribe Ceratitidini.


dacine

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Dacinae</i>

Objective 3 included the incorporation of several thousand additional specimens into the web-accessible, Afrotropical tephritid database (M. De Meyer and I. White) and the revision of Afrotropical dacines (White).

(entomology) Any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.


acanthocinine

Also collected one A. cazieri on a rain gauge, Mecas rotundicollis and one as yet undetermined acanthocinine cerambycid on miscellaneous foliage, one tiger beetle (Cicindela sedecimpunctata?) on the roadside, and two orange lycids in flight.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:

(entomology) Any longhorn beetle of the tribe Acanthocinini.


bumelia borer

A notable find was the pile of larval frass of Plinthocoelium suaveolens (bumelia borer) at the base of a living Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia) tree—a sure sign of active infestation by a beetle I have yet to formally record from this place.

(coleopterology, entomology) Plinthocoelium suaveolens, a species of beetle which bores into bumelia trees.


cactus longhorn beetle

en-noun

cactus longhorn beetle (plural cactus longhorn beetles)

We checked the cholla (Cylindropuntia imbricata) along the way hoping to see Coenopoeus palmeri (one of the cactus longhorns, which I’m not sure has been recorded from Oklahoma) or at least one of the more widespread Moneilema species, but none were seen (nor really expected).

(coleopterology, entomology) Any beetle of the genus Moneilema, which are commonly found on cacti.


cryptocephaline

From ultimately translingual Cryptocephalus + -ine.

suf

ultimately translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Cryptocephalus</i>

I rarely get anything beating Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia), but I beat most of the trees that I saw anyway and collected one cryptocephaline chrysomelid and two curculionoids.

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the subfamily Cryptocephalinae or the tribe Cryptocephalini.


clytrine

I was committed to trying to find Agrilus on the plants—a single individual of which I’d beaten from the plants three days earlier, and after beating several plants and seeing none (but collecting a great number of clytrine and cryptocephaline chrysomelids along with other insects) I finally found one!

(entomology) Of or pertaining to the beetles of the tribe Clytrini or the former family Clytrinae.


submargin

The ears are brownish, more or less rusty, the extreme edge whitish, particularly on the posterior border, the apical third externally with a submargin of black, expanding towards the tip into a broad blackish subapical spot.

1894, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 108:

Glumes slightly unequal […] ; florets slightly shorter than the longer glume; lemma ciliate on the margins or submargins in the upper part

2005, Katy Mallett, Flora of Australia (volume 44, part 2, page 137)

(entomology) An area parallel to a margin but slightly further in.


dithrycine

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Dithrycini</i>

... Artemisia (B. Merz, unpublished data); however, Ptiloedaspis does not share synapomorphies with other dithrycines, which induce stem galls on Artemisia.

(Can we date this quote?), Phylogenetic relationships, ecology and ecological genetics of cecidogeneous Tephritidae. Raman, A., Schaefer, C. W., Withers, T. M., eds: Biology, Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. Enfield, New Hampshire, USA:

(entomology) Any fly of the tribe Dithrycini.


anomine

(entomology) Any moth of the tribe Anomini.


passaloid

(entomology, rare) Any member of the Passaloidea superfamily of beetles.


fungus-growing ant

en-noun

fungus-growing ant (plural fungus-growing ants)

Fungus-growing ants (Attini) are in reality unique fungus-culturing insects.

1966 August 5, NEAL A. WEBER, “Fungus-Growing Ants: A symbiotic relationship exists between an insect and a plant, involving an effective culturing technique.”, in Science.org:

The fungus-growing ants are a New World group of > 200 species, all obligate symbionts with a fungus they use for food.

(Can we date this quote?), “Fungus growing ants”, in AntWiki:

(entomology) Any ant of the tribe Attini, which grow fungi in their ant colonies using food scraps, the fungi are then used to feed the colony.


larentiine

We report a larentiine species, Collix stellata Warren, for the first time from Korea.

2011 July 25, Sei-Woong Choi, “A New Record of Collix stellata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) from Korea”, in The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology:

The present study provides a first inventory of the primary type specimens of larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia.

2015 July 17, Olga Schmidt, “List of primary types of the larentiine moth species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) described from Indonesia - a starting point for biodiversity assessment of the subfamily in the region”, in Biodivers Data Journal:

(lepidopterology, entomology) Any moth in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae.


ant mimicry

myrmecomorphy (the mimicry of ants by other animals)


amphiesmenopteran

From translingual Amphiesmenoptera + -an.

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Amphiesmenoptera</i>

(entomology) Any insect of the taxon Amphiesmenoptera - including lepidopterans (butterflies and moths).


odontomach

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Odontomachus</i>

Their anthills and their environs were littered with the severed heads of giant odontomachs, which even spiders fear and respect.

2018 November 18, “Scientists have discovered the secret of ants who collect the ...”, in Planet Today:

In most ants, their jaws are thin sticks with which insects pick up food. But in others, odontomachs, widely distributed in hot regions of ...

2022 July 23, “VIDEO. Supersonic toothed ant jaw – Sciences et Avenir”, in GeekyNews, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

(myrmecology, entomology) Any ant of the genus Odontomachus.


symphily

(entomology) The condition of being a symphile.


coliadine

(lepidopterology, entomology) Any butterfly in the subfamily Coliadinae.


pinaculum

From ancient Greek πίναξ (plate) + Latin -ulum.

(entomology) A chitin plate on the skin of a caterpillar.


nomadine

(entomology) Any member of the Nomadinae subfamily of bees.


blattoid

Borrowed from translingual Blattoidea, from the type genus of Blatta, from Latin blatta (“photophobic bug”). Further etymology unclear.

This result, however, is much younger than some “roachoid” fossils and clearly invalidates the hypothesis suggesting that winged “blattoids” would date back to the Devonian.

2015 June 22, Frédéric Legendre, André Nel, Gavin J. Svenson, Tony Robillard, Roseli Pellens, Philippe Grandcolas, “Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence”, in PLoS One:

However, a subgroup analysis (by order) indicated that the DGC facilitated gaseous exchange in dipterans (0.43 ± 0.34; estimate ± 95% CI; p = 0.01), but not in blattoids (p = 0.89) or orthopterans (p = 0.57) (Figure 5a).

2022 January 22, Seun O. Oladipupo, Alan E. Wilson, Xing Ping Hu, Arthur G. Appel, “Why Do Insects Close Their Spiracles? A Meta-Analytic Evaluation of the Adaptive Hypothesis of Discontinuous Gas Exchange in Insects”, in Insects:

(entomology) Any member of the Blattoidea superfamily of cockroaches and termites.


microptery

(entomology) The state of being micropterous.


byrrhoid

(entomology) Any member of the Byrrhoidea superfamily of beetles.


exocone

(entomology) An elongated crystallized cone made of transparent material from the cornea in an insect eye.


eucephalic

(entomology) Having a well developed head capsule (in larva).


ceraphronoid

(entomology) Any member of the Ceraphronoidea superfamily of wasps.


coelopteran

(entomology) Any member of the Coeloptera genus of moths.


symphytan

(entomology) Any member of the Symphyta suborder of sawflies.


ceratinine

(entomology) Any member of the genus Ceratina of small carpenter bees.


praetornal

(entomology) Located in front of the tornus


chironomoid

(entomology) Any member of the Chironomoidea superfamily of flies.


peucedanoid

From Ancient Greek πευκέδανον (peukédanon) + -oid.

Coordinate term: ephialtoid

(entomology) Relating to one of two forms of Zygaena ephialtes.


ephialtoid

Coordinate term: peucedanoid


mononematic

(entomology) Having electron-dense extracellular material localized to the junction between the cilia and the attachment cell. (of stretch receptor organs in insects and crustaceans)


nompC

Initialism of No mechanoreceptor potential C

Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster#Translingual

(genetics, entomology) A gene coding for a mechanosensitive ion channel protein in Drosophila melanogaster.


gonite

(entomology) The last abdominal segments on a dipteran (fly), which are modified for reproduction


metaleg

Likewise, in those insects where the metalegs are fitted for jumping, the prolegs and mesolegs are coordinated with the metalegs and fitted for walking

1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect Anatomy:

The parts make up different but constant proportions of the entire leg for the pro- and mesolegs, but in the metaleg, the femur becomes relatively shorter and the tibia longer as size increases.

2013, Walter R. Tschinkel, The Fire Ants:

In X. flavitibia the first three tarsomeres of the metaleg are bright yellow.

2019, Jeffrey H. Skevington, Michelle M. Locke, Andrew D. Young, Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America:

(entomology) Either of the two hind legs on an insect.


hooktail

(entomology) Any dragonfly of the genus Paragomphus.


hemipneustic

From ἡμι- (hēmi-, “half”) and πνευστικός (pneustikós).

1977 O.W. Richards & R.G. Davies Imms' general textbook of entomology pub. Methuen
Hemipneustic Respiratory Systems... are prevalent among insect larvae and are derived from the holopneustic type through one or more pairs of spiracles becoming non-functional.

(entomology) in tracheal systems, having at least one functional pair of spiracles fewer than than the ten open pairs in holopneustic tracheal systems; hemipneustic systems occur for example, in the larvae of some Lepidoptera.


peripneustic

From περι- (peri-, “peri”) and πνευστικός (pneustikós).

1977 O.W. Richards & R.G. Davies Imms' general textbook of entomology pub. Methuen
Peripneustic... spiracles in a row along each side of the body. In typical examples the prothoracic and abdominal spiracles are open, that of the metathorax being closed. This condition is found in the terrestrial larvae of the orders Neuroptera, Mecoptera, Lepidoptera, of many Hymenoptera Symphyta, and of many Coleoptera...

(entomology) Of one of the categories of hemipneustic tracheal systems, in which the spiracles are in incomplete rows along each side of the body, as in the holopneustic arrangement, but with slightly fewer pairs of spiracles.


carder bee

en-noun

carder bee (countable and uncountable, plural carder bees)

(entomology) Common name for any species of bee in the genus Bombus or in the family Wikipedia:Megachilidae, that collects plant fibre and processes it for nesting material, by activities resembling the carding of fibre.

1923 A.D.IMMS A GENERAL TEXTBOOK OF ENTOMOLOGY
Other Bombi, known as carder bees, form surface nests hidden away among grass, ivy or other herbage. They derive their name from their habit of collecting moss and other material used in nest formation and plaiting it with the aid of their legs and mandibles. Having formed the nest the next act of the queen is to collect a mass of pollen which is formed into a paste. Upon the top of this substance she constructs a circular wall of wax and, in the cell thus formed, she lays her first batch of eggs, capping the latter over with a covering of wax.

(entomology) Common name mainly applied to some Bombus species in the northern hemisphere, where they occur widely and are the most familiar species of bees that exhibit carding activity in their nest building, rather than genera such as Anthidium in the Megachilidae, some of which occur in the Northern hemisphere as well and similarly exhibit carding activity .

1979 S.H Skaife. Revised by John Ledger: African Insect Life. →ISBN
The little carder bees of the genus Immanthidium also belong to the Megachilidae. They are mostly black with white markings on the abdomen, and with a white pollen brush on the underside of the abdomen. In some species the males are bigger than the females, an unusual feature among insects. Most of them make their nests in tubular openings, in sites similar to those chosen by the leafcutters, but their cells are lined with cottony fibres which they strip with their mandibles from various hairy plants. As an example of the group we can consider the widespread species, Immanthidium junodi.
The female carder bee arrives at her home carrying a little bundle of white fluff between her front legs. She takes this into her nest and cards the fibrous material by pressing it with her head and working it with her jaws until it forms a thin, uniform, thimble-shaped lining to the bottom of the tube. It takes several journeys before her beautiful white thimble is complete, ready to receive its store of food. She carries the pollen back to the nest on the underside of her abdomen and the nectar in her crop and stocks the cell with the mixture. It takes her about two days to construct and stock a cell; she then lays an egg on top of the food and closes the cell with a pad of fluff, well carded and felted. She fills the tube with cells within 10 mm from the entrance and then seals it off with a thick pad of fibres, pressed down firmly by her head and jaws to form a protective barrier to keep out enemies.

(entomology) In the southern hemisphere, where Bombus species occur only exceptionally, the common name most familiarly applied to species of bees that exhibit carding activity in their nest building, and are members of genera in the Megachilidae, such as Anthidium, Immanthidium and Afranthidium


codlemone

(entomology, organic chemistry) A pheromone produced by female codling moths with IUPAC name (8E,10E)-dodeca-8,10-dien-1-ol.


postacrostichal

(entomology) positioned posterior to acrostichal. Used for Diptera.


adfrontal

(entomology) One of a pair of narrow plates on the head of a caterpillar, forming an inverted V shape. They divide the head into two lateral and one central plates.


gonosaccus

(entomology) A section of membranous tissue on the hind body wall of the abdomen of an insect, normally sac-like but sometimes everted.


gonapsis

From gon- + Ancient Greek ἁψῑ́ς (hapsī́s, “arch”).

af

(entomology) A structure with an apex on the dorsal membrane on sternum IX.


intramedian

(entomology, lacewings) Located between the anterior and posterior media longitudinal veins on the wing.


pill beetle

(entomology) A holarctic species of beetle in the family Byrrhidae.


symphilous

(entomology) Being or relating to a symphile.


symphilism

(entomology) The property of being a symphile.


stylopize

en-verb

stylopize (third-person singular simple present stylopizes, present participle stylopizing, simple past and past participle stylopized)

stylopizes (present singular third-person)
stylopizing (participle present)
stylopized (participle past)
stylopized (past)

(entomology, transitive) Of a strepsipteran insect: to parasitize.


cellspot

A heavily suffused fuscous median fascia separates the cellspots and widens towards the hindmargin where it fuses with the postmedian fascia

1988, Walter Wittmer, Willi Büttiker, Friedhelm Krupp, Fauna of Saudi Arabia, volume 9:

the hindwings are a little narrower and longer the light maculation of the upperside of the forewing is markedly reduced and the cellspot only faintly suggested.

2001, Oliver Schäffler et al, Butterflies of the World: Papilionidae. - 6:

(entomology) A circular marking found on the wings of some butterflies and moths; orbicular stigma.


nasutiform

From nasute (“a kind of termite with a nasus”) + -iform.

af

The large subfamily Nasutitermitinae includes many species which have soldiers with a pear-shaped, nasutiform head and several species build nests of carton.

1970, Kumar Krishna, Frances M. Weesner, editors, Biology of Termites, volume II, New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, page 374:


scalpeliform

en-adj

scalpeliform (comparative more scalpeliform, superlative most scalpeliform)

more scalpeliform (comparative)
most scalpeliform (superlative)

Ostiolar peritreme elevated, scalpeliform, apex ending abruptly near middle of metapleuron.

1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 123:


xyphus

Mesosternum tumid with wide, punctured, longitudinal furrow between halves, xyphus quadrangular also punctured, its apex truncate.

Rostrum reaching to the end of the metasternum; first joint stout, reaching to the apex of the xyphus of the prosternum .

1865, John William Douglas, John Scott, The British Hemiptera: Hemiptera-Heteroptera - Volume 1, page 35:

(entomology) A triangular part of the prosternum that is found between the bases of the anterior coxae.


embolium

From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek ἐμβόλιον (embólion, “insertion”).

der

Hemelytral membranes small, not reaching apex of abdomen; costal margin of embolium rather evenly arcuate, hardly ampliate toward base. Connexivum well exposed, segmental angles rectilinear, not at all produced.

1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 117:

(entomology) A narrow piece separating the costa and corium in certain insects of the suborder Heteroptera.


cicada-geddon

cicada + -geddon or blend of cicada + armageddon.

(entomology, neologism) The rapid emergence of cicadas from underneath the ground after a long dormant period.


oedymerous

From Ancient Greek οἰδέω (oidéō, “I swell”) + -merous.

af

Coordinate term: gynaecoid

Female, forma brachyptera.—Much like preceding form in color and general structure, but usually distinctly œdymerous and male-like in appearance; eyes reduced in size, ocelli nearly or quite wanting, genal tooth usually more prominent; sense-cones shorter; pronotum usually fully 1.5 times as long as head.

1933 December, J. Douglas Hood, “New Thysanoptera from Panamá”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume 41, number 4, page 427:

Macropterous, brachypterous and apterous forms of females and males are known in their populations. Two forms – oedymerous and gynaecoid – occur in males: they are characterized by the allometry of some body parts.

2015 June 30, Halina Kucharczyk, Łukasz Wyrozumski, “Hoplothrips carpathicus Pelikán, 1961 (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) – a new thrips species in the Polish fauna”, in Polish Journal of Entomology, volume 84, →DOI, pages 73-74:

(entomology) Of certain Thysanoptera, having strongly thickened forelegs.


chimabachid

(entomology) Any member of the Chimabachinae subfamily of moths


prionopterous

(entomology) Having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).


schistocerca

Borrowed from translingual Schistocerca.

All the other schistocercas, except for the desert locust, schistocerca gregaria, (responsible for biblical and modern day plagues in Africa) are found in the New World.

2006 October 12, vanessa cardui, “What better day than Columbus Day?”, in Am I Bugging You Yet?: Bug sightings in and around Tustin, California., archived from the original on 2023-11-23:

Schistocercas shouldn't be such fussy eaters. We give them dried oats and green cabbage but they should also be able to survive on grass, carrots, anything really.

2013 May 24, mister_moustachio, “We got our grasshoppers in today. I love how they go towards the light”, in r/Entomology, Reddit:

(entomology, taxonomy, rare) Any large grasshopper of the genus Schistocerca.


pretornal

Upper and under sides similar to those in ♂; the differs in the black markings which are broader, the red ocelli on the hind wing that are considerably larger, and in the obliquely placed pretornal short bar that is always centred with red.

1907, Lieut. Colonel CT Bingham, The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma., volume II Butterflies, London: Taylor and Francis, page 127:

In the male, the forewing is lighter and without the greyish clouding; the pretornal mark is reduced to a few fuscous scales or is sometimes completely absent.

1953, Bulletin of Entomological Research, volume 43, London: Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, pages 686-687:

(entomology) Close to the margin of an insect’s wing towards the posterior angle; near the tornus.


neon skimmer

neon + skimmer (“type of dragonfly”), in reference to the species' vibrantly orange color.

(entomology) Libellula croceipennis, a New World species of bright orange dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.


dipteron

The next species of Diptera are two female specimens of Trichomyia, bred about the end of May, following which is a dipteron new to the British list, Brachycoma erratica, Mgn., of the family Tachinidæ, kindly identified with the other Diptera of our cherry stump, by Dr. Meade, of Bradford, who has fully described this new species on page 110 in the May number of The Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 1894.

1895, C. J. Watkins, “The Denizens of an Old Cherry Tree, With Notes of its Surroundings”, in The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, volume 14, page 9:

A larval dipteron which has been interpreted as a roundworm.

1905, Charles Wardell Stiles, Albert Hassall, The Determination of Generic Types and a List of Roundworm Genera, with Their Original and Type Species:

This gall was brought to me ten years ago. From my notes I gather it was probably made by a dipteron, but I failed to rear the flies.

1910 June, E. W. Swanton, “Notes on British Galls”, in Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science, volume 7, page 209:

(entomology) Any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera.


soft scale

en-noun

soft scale (countable and uncountable, plural soft scales)

(botany, entomology) Any immobile insect that anchors a strawlike mouthpart to feed on plant phloem or sap, of infraorder Coccomorpha or superfamily Coccoidea.


honey tube

These are crowded upon the leaves, some with their beaks buried so deeply as to appear as if standing upon their heads, pumping up the sap, and swelling out their delicate bodies till they seem fit to burst: globules of the sweet secretion continually forming at the extremity of each honey-tube, steadily increasing and dropping; the busy ants running hither and thither, now approaching, and lapping the drops, now rushing with meancing air and open jaws at some eager wasp or fly, who, just arrived, desires to share the repast, and whose conscience would not upbraid him should he devour a few of the confectioners with their own sirup.

1867 July, Francis Gregory Sanborn, “Plant-Lice and Scale-Insects”, in American Journal of Horticulture and Florists' Companion, volume 2, page 86:

This combination of a small honey tube and a feeler in which there is a single sensory pit on the ter minal joint, is peculiar to this larva just from the egg; none of the later broods have it .

1900, John B. Smith, The Apple Plant Louse:

Fig 2. Dorsal outline of the posteriro region of abdomen showing honey-tube within which are small characcteristic bodies and a fine tube which resembles a trachea.

1908 January, C. F. Jackson, “Notes on the Aphididae”, in Ohio Naturalist, volume 8, number 3, page 249:


tergocentral

Tergocentral setae of IV (= 3rd apparent segment) less than 6 in number…

1967, J. Linsley Gressitt, editor, Entomology of Antarctica (Antarctic research series: Biological and life sciences), illustrated edition, volume 10, American Geophysical Union, page 164:

The chaetotaxy of the abdominal tergocentral setae does not include the postspiracular setae, except for tergite II where postspiracular setae, if present, can not be distinguished from the remaining setae.

2013 May 10, Michel P. Valim, Ricardo L. Palma, “Three new species of the genus Philopteroides Mey, 2004 (Phthiraptera, Ischnocera, Philopteridae) from New Zealand”, in ZooKeys, number 297, page 73:

The tergocentral and postspiracular setae may be indistinguishable in species that have complete setal rows across the abdominal segments (e.g. Philopterus spp.; Figs 34–35), but are clearly identifiable in species with fewer setae (Fig. 37).

2018 4, Gustafsson, D.R., DiBlasi, E., Olsson, U., Najer, T., Sychra, O., Bush, S.E., “Checklist and key to the lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) of Sweden”, in Entomologisk Tidskrift, volume 139, number 4, page 219:

(entomology) Of setae: located centrally on the dorsal side of an insect's body segment.