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Mesoscutum

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Mes`o`scu´tum
n.1.(Zool.) The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.


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Head and thorax with orange spots and very fine dark brown or black lines along median suture of vertex and bordering mesoscutellum and mesoscutum as well as along sutures of propleura and mesopleura.
9 times its width; pronotum with a median pit; sternaulus smooth, weak, short; metapleuron setose towards the posterior coxae; notauli weakly impressed; mesoscutum with dorsal pit, largely smooth, shiny, setose, with setae longer in its middle-posterior part, covering all its surface; scutellar sulcus simple; surface of propodeum wrinkled and finely setose.
Mesoscutum coarsely sculptured, seldom shiny, often with notauli which are sometimes strong.
 
 
 
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