scissorial

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adjective

Relating to the cutting areas on the mandibles of Scarabaeoidea larvae (between the dentes and molar area).

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Meanings

adjectivescissorial (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyRelating to the cutting areas on the mandibles of Scarabaeoidea larvae (between the dentes and molar area).

    Each mandible has two scissorial teeth and a proximal tooth, the mola.

    2007, African Entomology, page 204
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    [...] with small dorsomolar setae on base of molar area, one large caudolateral seta at scissorial notch and one large lateral seta on molar area[.]

    1994, Giovanni Onore, Description of the immature stages of six species of Sphaenognathus, with comparative notes on phylogeny and natural history (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lucanidae), page 80

    Left mandible slightly longer than right one, its scissorial part wider.

    2018, S. A. Shabalin, Description of the larva of Acanthobodilus languidulus (Schmidt, 1916) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), page 4
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