scopulan.
/ˈskɒpjʊlə/ Entomology.
A small brush-like group of hairs upon the tarsus of bees and spiders.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > pollen basket on leg > brush-like hairs on foot
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1802 W. Kirby Monogr. Apum Angliæ I. 110 Scopula. This is the name by which I denominate the hairs which cover the inside of the plantæ, called by Schrank scopa, and by Reamur ‘la brosse’.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xix. 127 (note) Underneath they [the posterior plantæ] are furnished with a scopula or brush of stiff hairs set in rows.
1844 Blackwall in Rep. Brit. Assoc. i. 62 Those remarkable appendages termed scopulæ or brushes, with which the tarsi of numerous species of spiders are provided.
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