ands.
Circulate -us: having a cingulum or collar: see also cinetus.
Cinnabarine: [vermilion red].
Cinnamomeous: cinnamon brown [burnt sienna].
Cinema: see Thysanura, of which this forms a group including the
bristle-tails, and for which it has been used as an equivalent.
Circinal: spirally rolled like a watch-spring or a butterfly tongue.
Circiter: about, or round-about.
Circular: round like a circle.
Circumgenital glands: small circular glands with an excretory orifice
at tip, disposed in groups about the genital orifice in Diaspinae.
Circumoesophageal commissures: those cords or nerve fibres
connecting the suboesophageal ganglion with the main trunk of
nervous system.
Circumsepted: with a vein all around the wing.
Citrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may
or may not be ciliated; see plumose.
Cirrose -us: with somewhat dense curled hair.
Cirrus: a curled lock of hair placed on a thin stalk.
Citrine -us: lemon yellow [chrome yellow].
Cladocerous: with branched horns or antennae.
Clasper: a chitinized process, free or attached to the inner sides of
harpes, valves or other lateral pieces, serving to hold the female parts
during copulation: = the harpers of some authors.
Claspette: in genitalia of male culicids, the inner basal lobe of side
piece; q.v.
Clasp-filament: in male genitalia of culicids the articulated appendage
or terminal segment of side-piece or clasp; sometimes bears an
articulated point or apex and then = articulated apex.
Class: a division of the animal kingdom lower than a sub-kingdom
and higher than an order: e.g. the "Class Insecta."
Classification: is the systematic arrangement of insects (or other
animals or plants) in series showing their relation or agreement in
structure, life habits or other characters forming the basis of the
"classification."
Clathrate: latticed or lattice-like in appearance.
Claustrum: the structure uniting the wings in flight, whether by
hooks, by a thickening of the margin, or by a jugum.
Clava: a club; the enlarged apical joints of a clubbed
antenna: = clavola.
Claval suture: Hemiptera; at the base of hemelytra, separating
the clavus.
Clavate: clubbed: thickening gradually toward the tip.
Clavate hairs: in Collembola, = tenent hairs.
Clavicornia: that series of beetles having the antennae more or less
distinctly enlarged or clubbed at tip.
Clavicular lobe: Homoptera; that portion of hi
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