body parts
| Body parts | ||
| antennal scrobe | frontal fovea, antennal fossae | depression above base of antennae |
| apical aperture | AMA | apical metasomal aperture of male; |
| anterior tentorial pits | apodemata dorso-laterally situated at the border of the clypeus, externally visible as pits | |
| axilla(e) | Usually paired, often triangular regions posterior to the mesoscutum that usually appear as anterolateral regions of the scutellum | |
| carina(e) | keels | |
| fovea, foveola -ae | a shallow depression with well-marked sides: a pit. | |
| frontal fovea | see: antennal scrobe | |
| hypopygium | the final visible sternum of the abdomen | |
| hypostoma | Posterior, more or less inflected portion of the head capsule on either side of and often dorsal to the labiomaxillary complex, which is delimited laterally by the hypostomal carina | |
| laterope | a round or oval pit in the side of the first metasomal tergite between the spiracle and the base of the tergite. | |
| macula(e) | spots | |
| malar space | Minimum distance between the lower margin of the eye and the base of the mandible | |
| metacarp | vein 1-R1 | |
| notaulus | The usually oblique longitudinal groove on the mesoscutum, often dividing the mesoscutum into medial and lateral parts. | |
| occiput | Concave hind part of head | |
| orbit | The margin of the compound eye. | |
| pleural sulcus | groove (usually crenulate) posteriorly at the mesopleuron | |
| postpectal carina | carina at mesosternum in front of middle coxae | |
| precoxal sulcus | transverse depression on mesopleuron, anteriorly more dorsally situated than posteriorly | |
| prothorax | The thoracic segment that is located between the head and the mesothorax is composed of the pronotum, the propectus and the fore leg. | |
| scutellar sulcus | Prescutellar furrow | transverse depression (usually wide) in front of scutellum |
| segments (antenna) | Antennomeres, flagellomeres +2 | segments ot the antenna, starting at the scape |
| spur | calcarium -a | spine at the apex of a tibia |
| sternaulus | a groove on the lower edge of the mesopleuron, anteriorly more ventrally situated than posteriorly. The sternaulus is considered the dividing line between the mesosternum and the mesopleuron | |
| tegula | squamula | a small scale covering the base of the fore wing |
| temple | the area behind and beneath the eye | |
| tentorial pits | pits at upper corner clypeus. see: anterior tentorial pits | |
| vertex | The top part of the head, between the inner margins of the compound eyes, and between the anterior ocellus and the occipital carina. |
Figs. 1-2, mesosoma of Blacus (Ganychorus) pallipes Haliday, $, Netherlands, Wijster, legs and wings removed. 1, lateral aspect; 2, dorsal aspect. A = side of scutellum and axilla; B= precoxal sulcus; C = episternal scrobe; D = pleural sulcus; Ε = epicnemial area; F = metapleural flange; Gl = anterior part of metapleuron; G2 = posterior part of metapleuron; H = propodeum; I = metanotum; J = propodeal spiracle; Κ = prepectal carina;L = lateral lobe of mesoscutum; M = middle lobe of mesoscutum; Ν = notauli; Ο = mesopleuron; Ρ = pronotum; Ο = pronope; R = lateral carina of scutellum; S = scutellum;Tl + T2 = tegula and humeral plate, respectively; U = propleuron; V = mesosternum; W =medial carina of propodeum; X = lateral carina of propodeum; Y = pleural carina; Ζ =scutellar sulcus; AS = anterior subalar depression. 75 x.
figures: van Achterberg 1984
