he inner side of which muscles
are attached.
Exotic: not a natives of the place where found: an introduced species:
also any species occurring in any country outside of the limits of the
country whose fauna is under consideration.
Exotoky: is applied to that form of reproduction where the eggs are
developed outside of the body of the insect and without care by the
mother see endotoky.
Ex ova: from or out of the egg: applied to specimens that have been
bred from the egg stage.
Expanded: spread or flattened out: applied to Lepidoptera when set for
the cabinet.
Expanse: the distance between the apices or other widest point of the
wings when fully spread.
Expansio alarum: the wing stretch; see expanse.
Expiratory: relating to the act of expiration, when the abdomen is
contracted and the air contained in the abdominal tracheae is
presumably forced out of them.
Explanate: spread out and flattened; applied to a margin.
Explicate: unfolded; open; without folds or plica.
Exsculptate -tus: a surface with irregular, more or less longitudinal
depressions, as if carved.
Exscutellate: having no scutel.
Exserted: protruded; projecting beyond the body or over a given point.
Exsertion: a protrusion: an extension of a line or other ornamentation
beyond its ordinary course.
Extended: spread out: not lying one upon the other.
Extense: extended: expanded.
Extension plate: a structure at the base of the pulvillus whose
function it is to extend it.
Extension sole: the pad-like pulvillus which may be extended by the
extension plate through the pressure plate.
Extensor: that which extends or straightens out; applied to muscles.
Extenuate: to make or to become weak, thin or slender.
Exterior: the outside.
Exterior margin: the outer margin; sometimes used for costal margin.
External: belonging to or on the outside.
External area: Hymenoptera; the upper of the three cells or areas of
the metanotum, between the median and lateral longitudinal carina,
first lateral basal area.
External median area: Hymenoptera; the median of the three cells or
areas between the median and lateral longitudinal carinae: = second
lateral area.
Externomedial vein: in Hymenoptera (Norton) = radius (Comst.); in
Orthoptera, = media (Comst.).
Externo-median nerve: the humeral and discoidal veins together.
Extra-ocular: remote from or beyond the eyes.
Extremity: the point most remote from base.
Extrorse -um
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