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STERNITE [2 records]

Record 1 1977-06-14

English

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

Honeybees, bumblebees, stingless bees, and many solitary bees have wax glands on the sternites (ventral body plates).

French

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

Chacun de ces segments [du thorax] est revêtu de deux plaques chitineuses: l'une, dorsale, est le tergite (...) et l'autre, ventrale, est le sternite (...)

CONT

Les sternites des segments 3 à 6 portent chacun une paire de glandes cirières.

Spanish

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Record 2 1977-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

(...) ventral (...) hardened part of the cover of an [arthropod] metamere (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) pièce ventrale (...) d'un segment d'Arthropode (...)

Spanish

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