Definitions For Glossary Terms
- EFFACED See obsolete
- ELONGATE
- Much longer than broad (compare with oblong).
- EMARGINATE
- A margin with a notch or inwardly curved or angled 'cut out' portion
(compare with truncate).
- EMPODIUM See arolium
- ENTIRE See percurrent
- ENTIRE LINEA CALVA
- A linea calva in which the bare band
is continuous to the posterior margin of the wing, without any setae on the
dorsal surface at some point within the band or across the posterior end of the
band; by definition an entire linea calva is also an open linea calva, but not a closed linea calva or an interrupted linea calva. [drawing]
- EPICNEMIAL CARINA
- A ridge or carina that is sometimes present anteriorly on the mesepisternum
behind the procoxa, and which may continue under the coxae (see acetabular carina) to the discrimen, which delimits an epicnemium between itself and the procoxa and
a mesosternal shelf between itself
and the mesocoxae. [photo]
- EPICNEMIUM
- Term often used for an anteroventrally differentiated portion of the mesepisternum that lies under the procoxa
and behind and below the prepectus, though
rarely used for the ventral portion of the prepectus between the ventral
surfaces of the prothorax and mesothorax. In either sense the epicnemium is not
homologous with the epicnemium of sawflies (Symphyta) and is an analogous region
to similar looking regions in other Apocrita. [photo]
- EPIMERAL SCLERITE
See mesotrochantinal plate
- EPIPYGIUM
- Last tergite of the metasoma; used either as a synonym of syntergum or, in Torymidae, for a more or less
separated and sclerotized, partly setose, often flap-like sclerite posterior to
the eighth metasomal tergum in most females. [drawing]
- EPISTOMAL MARGIN
See clypeal margin
- EPISTOMAL SULCUS
- When visible, sulcus that differentiates the clypeus from the rest of the lower face;
sometimes used only for the mostly horizontal portion of the sulcus between the
anterior tentorial pits (see
also clypeogenal sulcus). [drawing]
- ERECT
- Upright, or projecting straight out from a structure (compare with adpressed and decumbent).
- EXODONT MANDIBLE
- Mandible in which the teeth are curved outward and the mandibles do not
overlap when closed.
- EXSERTED OVIPOSITOR
- An ovipositor that projects distinctly
beyond the apex of the last metasomal tergum. [photo][photo]
- EYE
- The paired organs of sight on the head that is composed of a large number of
facets, sometimes referred to as the compound
eye in contrast to the simple eye or ocellus.
[drawing]
- EYE MARGIN
- One of four margins of a compound eye, the upper or dorsal margin, lower or
ventral margin, inner or anterior margin, and outer or posterior margin;
sometimes called the orbit. [drawing]