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Uropygi
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Uropygi - whip scorpions order Pedipalpi, order Uropygi, Pedipalpianimal order - the order of animalsArachnida, class Arachnida - a large class of arthropods including spiders and ticks and scorpions and daddy longlegs; have four pairs of walking legs and no wingswhip scorpion, whip-scorpion - nonvenomous arachnid that resembles a scorpion and that has a long thin tail without a stingergenus Mastigoproctus, Mastigoproctus - giant whip scorpions |
Uropygi
Uropygi[‚yu̇r·ə′pī‚jī] (invertebrate zoology) The tailed whip scorpions, an order of arachnids characterized by an elongate, flattened body which bears in front a pair of thickened, raptorial pedipalps set with sharp spines and used to hold and crush insect prey. Uropygi (also Telyphones, Holopeltidia), an order of relatively large flagellate arachnids measuring approximately 7 cm in length. The thorax and head are grown together, and the abdomen ends in a long segmented tail-like limbo. Uropygi, distributed mainly in the tropics, are nocturnal insectivorous predators. They are harmless to man. One species, Typopeltis amurensis, is found in the USSR, in forests of Ussuri Krai. Uropygi
Related to Uropygi: whip scorpionSynonyms for Uropyginoun whip scorpionsSynonyms- order Pedipalpi
- order Uropygi
- Pedipalpi
Related Words- animal order
- Arachnida
- class Arachnida
- whip scorpion
- whip-scorpion
- genus Mastigoproctus
- Mastigoproctus
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