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androconium Zool.|ændrəʊˈkəʊnɪəm|
[mod.L., f. Gr. ἀνδρο- male + κονία dust.]
Usu. in pl. androconia, scales on the wings of certain male Lepidoptera from which the attractive scent of the male is diffused; = plumule 3 b. Hence androˈconial a.
1877S. H. Scudder in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. XII. 157 These peculiar scales [on a male butterfly], or androconia, as they may be called in reference to their masculine nature, were first noticed by Bernard Deschamps... Deschamps called them plumules. 1914T. B. Fletcher Some Indian Insects v. 49 The flocculent yellow androconial hairs which line the interior of the pocket and which doubtless emit a smell attractive to the female. 1937Nature 13 Feb. 265/2 The androconial scale and its development in the genus Erebia. 1957E. B. Ford Butterflies (ed. 3) v. 96 The attractive scent of the male is scattered by the androconia, usually situated on the upper side of the fore-wings. |