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EPICUTICULE [2 records]

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Record 1 2008-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Crustaceans
DEF

The middle cuticular layer of an insect or other arthropod, outside the endocuticle and beneath the epicuticle.

OBS

[This layer] is usually very thick and is composed of chitin and proteins impregnated with sclerotin and sometimes melanin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Crustacés
DEF

Couche rigide externe de la cuticule (couche cornée).

OBS

[L'exocuticule constitue] avec l'épicuticule la couche pigmentaire [du test d’un Crustacé], formée de lamelles parallèles minces, renfermant du carbonate de calcium et un peu de phosphate de calcium, associés à des pigments; [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Insectos, ciempiés, arañas y escorpiones
  • Crustáceos
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Record 2 2004-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
DEF

The outermost nonchitinous waxy layer of the insect exoskeleton ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
DEF

Revêtement externe, non chitineux, membraneux, astructurel, couvrant l’exocuticule; c’est une membrane réfractive, très mince, ordinairement incolore [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Zoología
DEF

Revestimiento externo, no quitinoso, membranoso, muy delgado y ordinariamente incoloro, que recubre la exocutícula.

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