preabdomen
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Etymology edit
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preabdomen (plural preabdomens or preabdomina)
- The enlarged anterior portion of the abdomen of a scorpion or sea scorpion
- (entomology) The anterior segments of the abdomen, distinguished from the posterior segments holding the reproductive apparatus.
- 2013, Verner Michelsen, “Proposal of Karliella gen. n. for the Afrotropical ‘Pegomya’ sexpunctata Karl, 1935 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), a possible kleptoparasite of dung-breeding beetles”, in African Invertebrates, volume 54, number 2, , pages 335–347:
- The anthomyiid oviscapt (postabdomen) is as regards the ground plan undoubtedly slender, well set off from and hardly shorter than the preabdomen, and has slender cerci with projecting, cylindrical apices.