单词 | chaetotaxy |
释义 | chaetotaxyn. The arrangement or plan of distribution of the bristles on the bodies of insects. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > hair > arrangement of bristles chaetotaxy1893 1893 E. A. Butler Our Househ. Insects 188 The plan of their distribution has been called by Osten-Sacken chætotaxy, i.e., bristle arrangement. 1903 Entomol. News 247 A careful exposition of the chaetotaxy of the Muscidæ. 1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. i. 8 In recent years chætotaxy, or the study of the arrangement of the more important setæ, has assumed a good deal of significance from the taxonomic point of view, particularly with reference to the Cyclorrhapha and larval Lepidoptera. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1893 |
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