Hemelytra usually much longer than the abdomen; fourth segment of the antenna longer than the third segment; hind tarsi with claws.
Tarsi slender, not hairy; anal lobe of the wing moderate.
Fourth and fifth segments of the first and second pair of tarsi are black.
Legs black with black hair; tips of hind tibia and tarsi yellowish brown.
Abdomen without such a cluster of scales; outstanding scales of the wing veins rather narrow, lanceolate; tarsi wholly black.
Head nearly spherical, cheeks broad and retreating; proboscis short; the cell R5 closed or narrowed in the margin; legs very long; tarsi shorter than the tibiae.
The spiracles are very small; coxae unarmed; tarsi without ventral spurs, and the pulvilli are absent or rudimentary.
Legs longer, with a clavate hair ontarsi I and II.
Legs short, without clavate hair on tarsi I and II.
The forelegs are doubled under the thorax, the tibia and tarsi resting firmly on the epidermis serve as a support for the body during the feeding.
Body with many fine hairs or short spines; not spinning threads; often with dorsal groove; tarsi often swollen.
First three segments of the hindtarsi are yellow, the fourth and fifth segments are black.
Cephalothorax with four distinct and long bristles in a transverse row; tarsi I and II about twice as long as the preceding segment (fig.
He brought back and established in their ancient homes the people who had been banished, whom, although they were objects of suspicion from their natural fickleness, he believed would go on more moderately than of old.
It is done: the patient lies motionless; only the tarsi quiver, twitching in their last convulsions.
At most, the tarsi tremble for a minute or two; that constitutes the whole death-struggle.
From time to time the tips of the tarsi quiver a little; and that is all.
Solidly planted on her sustaining tripod, the two hinder tarsi and the tips of the wings, she at last crooks her abdomen upwards and again stings the Bee under the chin.
If she frees her hinder tarsi she remains snared by the front tarsi and has to begin all over again.
I may add that it is black, with the first two abdominal segments, the legs and the tarsi a rusty red.
Body pretty cylindrical, head rounded with moderate sized maxillæ, elytra narrow and soft, tarsi penta-and heteromeral.
Maxillæ very large and pointed, antennæ setiform, wings hard and tolerably flat like the body, tarsi mostly pentameral.
Head tolerably short as well as the antennæ, tarsi tetrameral.
The tarsi and bones of the leg are bowed inwards, and are short and strong; the toes long, with stout, curved, pointed claws.
The legs are small, the tarsi thick, and the claws hooked.
The other distinguishing characteristics of the Long-billed Parrots are the naked tarsi (which are bare as far as the heel-joints) and the short flat soles of the feet.
Bill with obscure serratures: tarsi naked, covered with scales; the two anterior toes divided nearly to their base.
Bill with several unequal serratures on the margin of the upper mandible: head not crested, tail even, tarsi feathered to the base of the toes; anterior toes united to half their length.
In many bees, the first joint of the posteriortarsi is much larger in the females and workers than in the males; but in the hive-bee this joint is largest in the latter[866].
In many Tipulae the long legs are bent into three folds in the pupae; but the tarsi are extended, and lie close to each other, the anterior pair being the shortest[581].
This distinguishes the tarsiof Thrips[2106], and many Acari L.
Christian, a German writer on the Hymenoptera, has described some very singular appendages which he observed on the first joint of the four posterior tarsi of Xylocopa latipes F.
Those beetles whose posterior pair of tarsi have only four joints, and the two anterior five, are so called.
The second pair of tarsi have in these also the three first joints dilated and cushioned[863].
The term heteromerous properly belongs to all insects in which the different pairs of tarsi vary inter se in the number of their joints, and it is here used in that large sense.
As the proportions of the tarsi and toes of birds have great influence on their mode of life and habits and are often used as specific or even generic characters, I have prepared a diagram (Fig.
But in the species inhabiting bromelia leaves there is no need for swimming, and accordingly we find the tarsi entirely bare.
The pupae of caddis-flies inhabiting streams have fringes of hair on the tarsi to enable them to reach the surface on leaving their cases.
The Spider's front tarsi are the motor; the revolving spool is the captured insect; the steel eyelet is the aperture of the spinnerets.
The Osmia dusts them, brushes them thoroughly with her tarsi and then sweeps them out backwards.
She inspects the Linnet from end to end; with her front tarsi she fumbles at the breast and belly.
If the insect raises one of its tarsi and pulls towards itself, the treacherous thread follows, unwinds slightly and, without letting go or breaking, yields to the captive's desperate jerks.
The legs are black, and the hairs which fringe the tarsi reddish brown.
It belongs to the large tribe of aquatic carnivora, ranged in the section Pentamera, in which the tarsi of all the feet are five-jointed, the fourth being of ordinary size.
While the linear species of Helops are without them, they clothe all the tarsi of H.
In a specimen in my cabinet of Blatta gigantea, the posterior and anterior tarsi of one side have only four joints, while the intermediate one has five.
The tarsi of these insects are setaceous and nearly as fine as a hair, consisting sometimes of more than forty joints, those toward the extremity being very minute, and scarcely discernible, and terminating in a single claw.
The three first joints of the anterior tarsi of many of the larger rove-beetles (Staphylinus, L.
On the other side the hind leg is broken off, but the anterior and intermediate tarsi have both five joints.
The groin was pale green with black mottling; the anterior and posterior surfaces of the thighs and inner edges of the tarsi were greenish yellow with black bars.
The tibiæ and the tarsi of the mesothoracic and metathoracic legs are more lightly armed with spines than in the genera Argynnis and Brenthis.
The fore legs of the male are greatly atrophied, the tarsi and the tibia being fused and reduced to a small knob-like appendage.
The fore legs are greatly atrophied in the males, the tibia and tarsi in this sex being reduced to a minute knob-like appendage, but being more strongly developed in the females.
The fore legs of the female are also greatly reduced, but the tarsi and tibia are still recognizable as slender, thread-like organs.
This system, like most others, is not perfect, as there are numerous species not possessing five joints to the tarsi belonging to the first section; and for practical purposes beetles may be very well arranged according to habit.
The tarsi cling firmly to the hair-pencil which I hold out to them.
In some species of Iulus the tarsi of the male are furnished with membranous suckers for the same purpose.
They abound in the Lepidoptera: one of the most extraordinary is that certain male butterflies have their fore-legs more or less atrophied, with the tibiae and tarsi reduced to mere rudimentary knobs.
Wallace informs me that the males of certain moths cannot unite with the females if their tarsi or feet are broken.
Leg-sheaths ending opposite the base of the fifth abdominal segment, the tips of the tarsi ending about on a common level or those of the fore legs a trifle longer.
There are three distinct and large thoracic segments, whereof the prothorax is narrower than the others; the legs are much shorter and stouter than in the winged insect, with monomerous tarsi terminated by a single claw.
The red man was an admirer of ours," said uncle Tarsi Swift, who was an old bachelor and a little cross sometimes.
Isomers: that series of Coleoptera in which the tarsi have an equal number of joints on all feet.
Cupules: the sucker-like processes covering the under surface of the tarsi in male Dytiscidce.
Heteromera: Coleopteran in which the anterior and middletarsi are 5-jointed and the posterior are 4-jointed.
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