Inner side of hind coxae distally with a comb of minute teeth; falx present.
Mesosternite narrow, without internal rod-like thickening from the insertion of the coxae upwards.
Anterior coxae inserted at the posterior margin of the prosternum; legs natatorial.
Legs I and II with processes bearing spines; skin with several shields; coxae contiguous.
Beak short, reaching to about the anterior coxae; scutellum acuminate at the apex; lateral margin of the elytra but little reflexed, apical margin more or less rounded; intermediate and posterior coxae very remote.
Ocelli present in the winged individuals; anterior coxae not as long as the femora.
Thorax usually constricted caudad of the middle; anteriorcoxae externally flat or concave.
With a distinct spiracle upon a stigmal plate on each side of the body (usually ventral) above the third or fourth coxae or a little behind (fig.
Labial palpi four or five-segmented; symmetrical; hind coxae with patch of spines inside; row of six spatulate spines on each side in front of the antennae.
Female wanting the small spot near the base of the anterior wings, the third segment of the abdomen slightly bronzed, coxae black.
Thorax black, legs black except the coxae which are white.
When the posterior coxae form a broad thin plate which covers the trochanter and the base of the thighs.
When the posterior coxae are distinguished by a curling lock of hair (Flocculus).
The coxaeof the five pairs of limbs following the chelicerae were arranged in a series on each side between the mouth, M, and the metasternites, mets.
Lankester described under the name "coxal glands" a pair of brilliantly white oviform bodies lying in the Scorpion's prosoma immediately above the coxae of the fifth and sixth pairs of legs (fig.
Coxae of 5th and 6th, and usually also of 4th appendages immovable.
Sternal area broad, with prosternal, two mesosternal, and metasternal plates, the prosternum projecting forwards beneath the coxae of the 2nd pair of appendages.
Posterior borders of the chitinous bases of the coxae of the second, third, fourth and fifth prosomatic limbs.
Mesosternite of the prosoma: observe the contact of the coxae of the sixth pair of limbs behind it; compare Liphistius (fig.
The meeting of the coxae of all the prosomatic limbs in front of the pentagonal sternum; the space for a genital operculum; the pair of pectens, and the absence of any evidence of pulmonary stigmata are noticeable in this specimen.
Ventral view of a scorpion, Palamnaeus indus, de Geer, to show the arrangement of the coxae of the limbs, the sternal elements, genital plate and pectens.
Coxae of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th appendages movable or immovable.
Again, they have no proper Enarthrosis, or ball and socket; though the anterior coxaeof the Capricorn-beetles (Cerambyx L.
Phalangidae the bases of the coxae approach near to each other, being separated only by a narrow sternum; in their antagonists, Chelifer and Scorpio, they apply to each other, the anterior ones acting as maxillae.
In many insects these coxae seem to belong as much to the abdomen as to the trunk.
In this genus the bed of the posterior coxae appears to consist of two segments, which are beautifully fringed with parallel short bristles.
The coxae of the legs are large, and those of the last four or five pairs usually contain glands opening by large orifices.
The gonopods, present and usually jointed in both sexes, are especially well developed and forcipate in the female, and arise from a large ventral plate resulting from the fusion of their coxae with the sternum of the genital somite.
These glands are the main excretory organs in Limulus and the scorpions, and extend into the basal segments or coxae of the four endognaths, not into those of the ectognaths or the chilaria (or metastoma).
Judging from Limulus, these were coextensive with the coxae of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th locomotor appendages.
Legs reddish except the coxae and cephalic femora and tibiae.
Legs reddish except the coxae and the first and third femora ventrad; more slender than usual, the ovipositor about as in californicum but the abdomen is longer, hence the ovipositor is so.
The coxae and patellae are unusually long, especially on the front legs, and the tarsi are unusually short (fig.
The coxae of the third and fourth legs of the male calcarata have little processes on the under side (fig.
The abdomen is green on the under side, and the sternum and coxae are orange.
The coxae of the second legs have a conical spine near the base.
The male angulata has a pair of long spines under the coxae of the second legs, but in silvatica these spines are so small as to be hardly visible.
The coxae of the hind legs almost touch, and the sternum is short and nearly round (fig.
On the under side of the coxae of the second legs is a conical spine, which is longest in the angulata variety.
On the under side the coxae are light colored and the sternum dark, and there is a broad dark middle band on the abdomen from the hinder legs to the spinnerets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coxae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
