Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word MICROSETAE

Definitions of MICROSETAE

1. plural of microseta.

Examples of Using MICROSETAE in a Sentence

• Wings of the alates are glabrous and lack the microstructures like micrasters, microsetae or rods found in more modern Isoptera.
• They are built up with hydrophobic waxy microhairs, microsetae, and each hair is covered with nanogrooves.
• 5 mm, antennal arista plumose on the dorsal surface but bare on the ventral; thorax scutum mostly red-brown with 6 scutellar setae, scutellum flat and bare of microsetae, abdomen with black tip, tibia of the mid leg with one strong apical spine, a distinctive dark pattern on the wing, and abdominal tergites fulvous (reddish-yellow, tawny) with the third to fifth having transverse black patterns.
• Anderus brucei has fine microsetae on the three apical segments of the maxillary palps; four spines on the inferior retro lateral angle of the mid tibiae; a single inferior articulated spine on the hind tibiae; males with a V- or U-shaped apical margin on the subgenital plate, blunt cerci, and ninth abdominal termite with two obtuse curved lobes; females with a long, gently curved ovipositor.

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