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.

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).

There is also a pair of narrow tergal sclerites interposed between the anterior and posterior shields.

ventral cervical sclerites III, Hind leg and metasternum.

The dorsal area of the mesothorax, and also of the metathorax, may be made up of a series of sclerites arranged one behind the other - prescutum, scutum, scutellum and post-scutellum (fig.

In the abdominal exoskeleton the segmental structure is very clearly marked, a series of sclerites - dorsal terga and abdominal sterna - being connected by pale, feebly chitinized cuticle, so that considerable freedom of movement between the segments is possible.

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.

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

Riley holds that the hypopharynx be longs to the mandibular and maxillary segments, while the cervical sclerites 2 ---_,?1 N' ____ U1 or gula represent the ster Ant num of the labial segment.

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

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.