Meanings
- biologyA darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
Air-tube index 6.5 to 7.0, without any fuscation near the center;
1954, Richard H. Foote., The Larvae and Pupae of the Mosquitoes Belonging to the Culex Subgenera Melanoconion and Moschlostyrax, page 602 more examples
It is true other species have some fuscation but with them it is slight, not noticeable casually, and has usually been omitted in descriptions.
1911, A. A. Girault, “Hymenoptera”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 37, page 51The same as victoria but the scape is also dark red, including also the long pedicel and the first two funicle joints (and a part of the third); the abdoment is reddish only along the median line of the venter; the fore wings bear the same general pattern ( as regards fuscation ) but they are more irregularly fumated, the two fumated areas less distinctly separated, especially caudad.
1915, Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volume 4, page 333
Origin
- Latinfuscare
- Englishfuscation
From Latin fuscare, fuscatum (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).
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