USED IN ENTOMOLOGY. i i 



Apivorous: devouring bees. 



Apneustic: without an open tracheal system; respiration is through the skin 



or through tracheal gills. 

 Apocrita: ^ petiolata, q. v. 

 Apodal: with single, simple tubercles instead of feet, in larvae; without feet: 



^ apodous. 

 Apode: one that has no feet. 

 Apodema: a conspicuous transverse band crossing the thorax in front of the 



scutellum in male Coccidcr. 

 Apodeme: an inwardly directed process to which a muscle is attached. 

 Apodous: without feet; see apodal. 

 Apolar: without differentiated poles; without apparent radiating processes; 



applied to cells. 

 Apophysis: the lower of the two joints of trochanter in ditrocha ; = trochan- 



terellus ; the dorso-lateral metathoracic spines in Hymeiwptera ; also used 



as synonymous with ento-thorax. 

 Apophystegal plates: Orthoptera ; flattened blade or plate-like sclerites cover- 

 ing the gonapophyses. 

 Apotypes: = hypotypes ; q. v. 

 Appendage -es: any part, piece or organ attached by a joint to the body or to 



any other main structure. 

 Appendice -es: any attached body or small process; an appendix. 

 Appendicial: supplementary: relating to appendices. 



Appendicle: a small appendix: in some bees, a small sclerite at tip of labrum. 

 Appendiculate: bearing appendages; said of antennae where the joints have 



articulated appendages ; of tarsal claws that have membranous processes at 



base. 

 Appendiculate cell: Hymenoptcra ; is on costa just beyond 2d radius i and 2. 

 Appendigerous: bearing appendages. 

 Appendix: a supplementary or additional piece or part, added to or attached 



to another: in Hetcroptcra ; =: cuneus, q. v. 

 Appress-ed: to press against; closely applied to. 

 Approximate: near to; applies to antennae inserted close together. 

 Aptera: those that have no wings: an ordinal term formerly employed for 



fleas, lice and other wingless forms now distributed in other orders : later 



used for the simplest or lowest insects, including the Thysanitra and 



Collemhola. 

 Apterodicera: wingless, with two antennae. 

 Apterous: without wings. 

 Apterygogenea: those insects that are wingless in all stages and presumed 



to be descended from ancestors which never were winged : see pterygogenea. 

 Apterygota: = apterygogenea ; see pterygote. 

 Aquamarine -us: sea green: pale green with predominant blue and a little 



gray [nile green]. 

 Aquatic: living wholly in water. 



Aquatilia: cryptocerous Hemiptcra of truly aquatic habit. 

 Arachnoideous: resembling or similar to a cobweb. 



