The articular surfaces of the haunches (coxae) of the fore-legs are often conical or globular, so that each limb works in a ball-and-socket joint, while the hind haunches are large, displacing the ventral sclerites of the first two abdominal segments (fig. [Please select]
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21 _e_, _f_), formidable, black, claw-like structures, articulated to the strong pharyngeal sclerites and moved by powerful muscles, tearing up the fibres of the flesh. [Please select]
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Axillae: two small, subtriangular sclerites at the lateral basal angles of the meso-scutellum in Proctytripidae. [Please select]
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Apophystegal plates: Orthoptera; flattened blade or plate-like sclerites covering the gonapophyses. [Please select]
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Entothorax: applied to the apodemes or processes extending inwardly from the sternal sclerites: see apophysis. [Please select]
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Epimera -eron: the posterior lateral thoracic sclerites; usually small, narrow or triangular. [Please select]
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Hypopharyngeal sclerites: in bees, a pair of strap-like pieces along the hypopharynx to the mentum: see also epipharyngeal sclerites. [Please select]
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Parapsidae: the small sclerites on each side of the scutellum in Chalcids, marked by the parapsidal grooves. [Please select]
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Patagium -ia: in Lepidoptera, those sclerites that cover the base of primaries: often used as synonymous with tegula and squamula, q. [Please select]
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More commonly, as with most of the well-known Ground-beetles (Carabidae), the cuticle is less consistently hard, firm sclerites segmentally arranged alternating with considerable tracts of cuticle which remain feebly chitinised and flexible. [Please select]
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Basalis: the principal mandibular sclerite, when sclerites are distinguishable, to which all other parts are jointed; corresponds to the stipes in the maxilla. [Please select]
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