Meanings
noun
- biologyA triangular part of the prosternum that is found between the bases of the anterior coxae.
Rostrum reaching to the end of the metasternum; first joint stout, reaching to the apex of the xyphus of the prosternum .
1865, John William Douglas, John Scott, The British Hemiptera: Hemiptera-Heteroptera - Volume 1, page 351 more example
Mesosternum tumid with wide, punctured, longitudinal furrow between halves, xyphus quadrangular also punctured, its apex truncate.
1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 123
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