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furcula: the forked ental processes of the sternum.

Furcal orifice: see sternal into orifice.

Furcate: forked; divided nto two approximately equal divisions.

Furcula: a forked process: an osmaterium {Scanner's comment:
sic. See comment under "osmaterium".}: in Collembola the spring or
saltatory appendage borne by the fourth abdominal segment: in
Orthoptera, a pair of backwardly directed appendages which overlie in
a more or less forked position the base of the supra-anal plate.

Furred: covered with dense hair resembling fur.

Fuscescent: becoming brown; with a brown shading.

Fusco-ferruginous: brownish rust red.

Fuseo-piceous: pitch black with a brown tinge or admixture.

Fuseo-rufous: red-brown, approaching liver brown.

Fuseo-testaceous: dull reddish brown [brown ocher].

Fuscous -us: dark brown, approaching black; a plain mixture of
black and red [crimson lake + black].

Fused: run together: applied when two normally separated markings
become confluent and have a common outline.

Fusiform: spindle-shaped: tapering gradually to each end.

Fusulus: = spinneret, q.v.

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Gales: the outer lobe of the maxilla, usually two-jointed, often
hood-like, subject to great modifications in Hymenoptera and
Diptera, and forms the coiled tongue in Lepidoptera.

Galeotheca: that part of the pupal case that covers the gales.

Gall: an abnormal swelling or excrescence on a plant, produced by an
insect: = cecidium.

Gallicolous: dwellers in galls, whether as producers or inquilines.

Gallivorous: feeding upon galls or gall tissue.

Gamogenesis: reproduction through fertilization: see agamogenesis.

Ganglion -ia: a nerve centre composed of a cell mass and fibres: the
white disc-like bodies connected by a double cord, lying above the
ventral surface within the body and forming the centre of the nervous
system.

Gasterotheca: that part of the pupa case that covers the abdomen.

Gastric: of or belonging to the belly or to the stomach.

Gastric caeca: = caecum; q.v.

Gastro-coeli: a pair of usually transverse lateral pits near the base of
the second abdominal tergite in some Hymenoptera.

Gastro-ileal folds: occur in some insects at the junction of the chylific
ventricle with the ileum and serve as a valve.

Gastrula: that embryonic stage resembling a sac, with an outer layer
of epiblastic cells and an inner layer of hypoblastic cells.

Gastrulation: the process of forming a gastrula.

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