Conjunctiva of the ventral sclerites of the abdomen present, frequently well developed, surrounding the sclerites.
Fifth ventral abdominal sclerite of the male cleft to beyond the middle; ventral sclerites usually visible, shield-like.
The female can protrude a long flexible tube in connexion with the eighth segment, carrying the scleritesof the ninth at its extremity, and these sclerites may carry short hairy processes--the stylets.
The middle one of these three sclerites enlarges greatly in the digging appendage, and grows over the coxopodite to form the base from which the flabellum springs.
Doubtless the median sclerites of the entocoxites of the endognaths represent Kishinouye's undeveloped knobs.
There are two lateral sclerites on each side of the neck (fig.
No means at present exist for identifying the terga and sterna of the head, nor have the gena, the occipital frame, and the cervical sclerites (described below) been assigned to their segments.
A marked modification of the hinder abdominal segments may be noticed in most insects, the sclerites of the eighth and ninth being frequently hidden by those of the seventh.
Riley holds that the hypopharynx belongs to the mandibular and maxillary segments, while the cervical sclerites or gula represent the sternum of the labial segment.
There is also a pair of narrow tergal sclerites interposed between the anterior and posterior shields.
Degenerate, mostly parasitic forms approaching the Prostigmata in the development of integumental sclerites and the softness of the skin, but with the respiratory system absent.
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