cklace.

Monochromatic: of one color throughout.

Monodactyle: with a single movable claw which closes on the tip of the
other leg structures as in some parasitica.

Monodomous: ants in which each colony has one nest only.

Monoecious: when both sexual elements or glands exist in one
individual.

Monogamous: a union where a female is fertilized by one male only.

Monomeri: insects with one-jointed tarsi.

Monomorphic: species of which only one sex (female) is known to
exist.

Monophagous: insects feeding upon only one species or genus of
plants.

Monothelious: a union where one female is fecundated by many
males.

Monotrocha -ous: Hymenoptera in which the trochanters are single:
having legs in which the trochanter is one-jointed.

Monotypical: a genus described from a single species, no other being
known; or described from a single specified species with which are
associated others believed to be identical in structure: see isotypical
and heterotypical.

Moult: a period in the transformation when the larva changes from
one instar to another: the cast skin of a larva that has moulted.

Mouth: the anterior opening into the alimentary canal, where the
feeding structures are situated and in which the food is prepared for
ingestion.

Mouth-parts: a collective name including labrum, mandibles,
maxillae, labium and appendages = trophi.

Mucoreus: mouldy: a surface covered with small, fringe-like processes.

Mucro: a long, straight or curved process terminating in a point: the
pro-sternal process in Elateridae: the terminal spine or process of an
obtect pupa: "the median posterior point of the epigastrium when
differentiated by elevation."

Mucronate: terminated in a sharp point.

Mucrones: in Collembola the two small end pieces of the furcula,
proceeding from the dentes.

Mullerian association: a group of species belonging to different genera,
often different families or even orders, having similar colors,
possessing more or less distasteful qualities and living in the same
locality.

Muller's thread: the common terminal thread of all the ovarian tubes.

Multangulate: with many angles.

Multi-: many; used as a prefix, often without the i.

Multiarticulate: with many joints or segments.

Multilocular: with many large cells, spaces or cavities.

Multipartite: divided into many parts.

Multiplicate: with many longitudinal folds or lines of plication.

Multispinose: with many spines.

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