scapus


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scapus

(ˈskeɪpəs)
n
a leafless flower stalkthe shaft of a columnthe stem or shaft of a featherthe first joint or segment of an insect's antenna
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Antenna with 33-38 flagellomeres, lower face about 0.7-1.0 times as broad as high, with scattered hairs, coriaceous and striated transversally, presence of small tubercle below the base of scapus; head in dorsal view (Figure 1B) with long gena, posterior ocelli separated from eyes by 0.75-1.2 times its own maximum diameter.
Description of the male of Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Brulle, 1846) (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)
Brunner von Wattenwyl (1891) combined several genera in Amblycoryphini using the key character "fastigium as wide or wider than scapus".
Paraplangia sinespeculo, a new genus and species of bush-cricket, with notes on its biology and a key to the genera of Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea) from Madagascar
The word "inscape" derives, she says, from scapus, the shaft of a column or stem of a flower; it is therefore not primarily a variant of "landscape." Inscape is "a core design or pattern in everything that exists," a definition not linked, as many scholars would have it, to a sense of heightened individuality.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fastigium of vertex conical, narrower than scapus, furrowed dorsally and separated by step-like incision
Key to the Tribes and Genera of Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) of Pakistan
Antenna dark brown except yellow base of scapus. Clypeus brownish yellow, labrum and palpi yellowish, mandible yellow but its middle tooth yellowish brown.
A new species of the genus Proantrusa Tobias (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) from northwestern China
The female epigynum of the genus Hemicloea have a peculiar, folded scapus, which expands during copulation.
Structure of genital organs and mating process of the spider hemicloea sundevalli thorell, 1870 (araneae: gnaphosidae)
Scapus; longissimus, teres, articulatus, erectus, apice coloratus.
Notificacion y reconocimiento de Polianthes geminiflora (Lex.) Rose (Agavaceae)
32 Basal flagellomere distinctly longer than scapus and pedicellus combined (Fig.
A revision of Afrotropical species of Stylogaster Macquart (Diptera: Conopidae), with descriptions of twenty-one new species and an identification key
Epic launched the takeover bid together with Crotian Scapus, Satis and Enitor.
Austrian Epic gets approval from Croatian regulator to take over Valamar
6d), medially pointed but always without a scapus (Fig.
A review of the pirate spiders of Tasmania (Arachnida, Mimetidae, Australomimetus) with description of a new species
itamarajuensis Leme & Baracho, cui proxima, sed scapus atrovinoso-purpureus, bracteis primariis quam basin ebracteatam ramulorum longioribus, peduculis ramorum atrovinoso-purpureis, floribus longioribus, petalis viridibus longioribusque et per anthesim subpatentibus recurvatis differt; a H.
Two new giant bromelioids from the Atlantic forest of Espirito Santo, Brazil
The protocol considers the suitable use of the scapus of the pachymeter, suggesting the use of an instrument with better degree of accuracy and defining anatomic points as bases for the measurements.
Malnutrition and somatic development: application of protocol of mensuration to evaluation of indicators of Wistar rats / Desnutricion y evaluacion del desarrollo somatico: uso del protocolo de medidas para la evaluacion de los indicadores en rats Wistar
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