单词 | trophothylax |
释义 | > as lemmastrophothylax trophothylax n. Brit. , U.S. , ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > larva(e) > food pouch on thorax trophothylax1920 1920 W. M. Wheeler & I. W. Bailey in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 22 258 The sternal portion of the first abdominal segment is transversely elliptical..and furnished with a food-pouch, the trophothylax. 1971 E. O. Wilson Insect Societies iv. 55/1 The nurse worker first pushes the fragment deep within the trophothylax, the special food pouch located on the lower surface of the thorax just behind the head (and found only in pseudomyrmecine larvae). 1990 B. Hölldobler & E. O. Wilson Ants xiv. 533/2 From time to time workers also force open the trophothylax and regurgitate droplets of fluid into it. < as lemmas |
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