Definition of Sternite. Meaning of Sternite. Synonyms of Sternite

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Definition of Sternite

Sternite
Sternite Ster"nite, n. [From Sternum.] (Zo["o]l.) The sternum of an arthropod somite.

Meaning of Sternite from wikipedia

- are externally visible sternites. Usually the first sternite is covered up, so that ventrite numbers do not correspond to sternite numbers. The term is...
- used to inseminate the female. In dragonflies, it is a set of modified sternites on the second abdominal segment. In advanced groups of insects, the male...
- veins. Sternite 9 of the male genitalia has, with few exceptions, two pairs of appendages. Sometimes appendages are also present on sternite 8. The female...
- elytron (wing cover), 5: tibia, 6: tarsus, 7: claws, 8: mouthparts, 9: prothorax, 10: mesothorax, 11: metathorax, 12: abdominal sternites, 13: pygidium....
- projection of the sternite VII is irregular, long and very narrow. Chaetotaxy with two tufts in Sternite V. Posterior margin of the Sternite V is weakly sinuate...
- indistinctly serrated. The sides of the mesothorax bear long bristles. Sternite 8 of the female is without dentate protuberances. Subgenus Cnemoncosis...
- called dorsal tergites and ventral sternites. Wax is secreted from glands on the abdomen and extruded between the sternites where it resembles flakes of dandruff...
- and third abdominal segments). Tergosternal fusion, when the tergite and sternite of a segment fuse together, can occur partly or fully on the second, third...
- Tergites 10 and 11 are not fully developed and segment 18 does not have a sternite. This model deviates from descriptions by Lewis who identified only 7 tergites...
- Ends of abdomen of females of the three most common Sun****a species with marked seventh sternite and the preopercular organ located there...