mesothorax in a sentence
Examples
- The middle segment is the mesothorax, with the major features being the second pair of legs and the anterior wings.
- It is formed by the prothorax, mesothorax and metathorax and comprises the pleuron, a lateral sclerite of the thorax.
- In dragonflies and damselflies the mesothorax and metathorax are fused together to form the "'synthorax " '.
- During what is called the precopulatory phase, the male rubs the female s mesothorax with his first two pairs of legs.
- Because the mesothorax and metathorax hold the wings, they have a combined name called the pterothorax ( pteron = wing ).
- The most obvious is that the thorax is divided into three sections, the prothorax, the mesothorax, and the metathorax.
- Three segments make up the thorax : the mesothorax, metathorax and prothorax, as well as the exoskeletal plates that connect with these segments.
- The thorax is divided into the prothorax, mesothorax and metathorax; the dorsal side of the prothorax is a sclerotized shield, the pronotum.
- The mesothorax and metathorax each have a pleural suture ( mesopleural and metapleural sutures ) that runs from the wing base to the coxa of the leg.
- The ventral view or sternum follows the same convention, with the prosternum under the prothorax, the mesosternum under the mesothorax and the metasternum under the metathorax.