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sclerites's Usage Examples:

its attachment to the trunk, we find a highly complex series of small sclerites adapted for the varied movements necessary for flight.

ventral cervical sclerites III, Hind leg and metasternum.

- Legs and Ventral Thoracic Sclerites of Female Cockroach (Blatta).

The head is usually connected with the thorax by a distinct membranous neck, strengthened in the more generalized orders with small chitinous plates (cervical sclerites).

I, 2) is composed of a number of sclerites firmly sutured together, so that the primitive segmentation is masked.

The regions of this cuticle have a markedly segmental arrangement, and the definite hardened pieces (sclerites) of the exoskeleton are in close contact with one another along linear sutures, or are united by regions of the cuticle which are less chitinous and more membranous, so as to permit freedom of movement.

The workers in question remain within the nest, suspended by their feet, and serve as living honey-pots for the colony, becoming so distended by the supplies of honey poured into their mouths by their foraging comrades that their abdomens become sub-globular, the pale intersegmental membrane being tightly stretched between the widely-separated dark sclerites.

The most active form of larva found in this family resembles in shape that of a ladybird, tapering towards the tail end, and having the trunk segments protected by small firm sclerites.

The female can protrude a long flexible tube in connexion with the eighth segment, carrying the sclerites of the ninth at its extremity, and these sclerites may carry short hairy processes A B D.yrnt,sc/'rle moathd ..

sclerites and the softness of the skin, but with the respiratory system absent.

sclerites's Meaning':

hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods