ike ridges on caterpillars.
Onisciform: shaped like a wood-louse, Oniscus sp.; applied to certain
Lycaenid and other caterpillars.
Ontogenetic: relating to the development of the individual.
Ontogeny: the development of the individual as distinguished from
that of the species: see phylogeny.
Onyches: claws of tarsi.
Onychium -ia: small processes between the tarsal claws in many
Diptera; see empodium: a more or less retractile process on the feet of
some beetles: in Hymenoptera, the apical tarsal joint bearing the
claws: see also arolium and pulvillus.
Ooeblast: the primitive germinal nucleus of an egg.
Ooegenesis: the process of egg-formation.
Ooelemma: the cell wall of an egg: see vitelline membrane.
Ooetheca: the covering or case over an egg mass, as in certain
Orthoptera: see egg case.
Opacus: opaque; a surface without any lustre.
Opalescent: with a bluish white lustre, as in opals.
Opalinus: = opalescent; q.v.
Opaque: without lustre: not transparent.
Operaria: the workers in Hymenoptera.
Operative: in working order or actually working.
Opercula: two plates covering the vocal structure of Cicada, beneath.
Operculum: a lid or covering: in Diptera, the chitinous envelope
covering the lower part of the muscid mouth; the labrum-epipharynx
of Dimmock: the scutes covering the meso-thoracic stigmata: in
Aleurodidae, the lid-like structure closing the vasiform orifice; q.v.
Ophthalmic: relating to the eye.
Ophthalmotheca: that part of the pupa that covers the eyes.
Opisthogoneate: having the organs of generation at hind end of body.
Opisthogonia: the anal angle of the secondaries.
Opposite: placed over against, or opposed to.
Optic: relating to the organs of vision.
Optic ganglia: are at the sides of the procerebrum and innervate the
compound eyes.
Optic lobes: the laterals lobes of the procerebrum in which are
centered the nerves supplying the organs of vision.
Opticon: the first of a series of three ganglionic swellings in the optic
nerve: see epiopticon and periopticon.
Optic segment: =procerebral segment; q.
Optic tract: is the perceptive portion of the compound eye.
Ora: a border: specifically in some Coleoptera, the lateral margin of
prothorax.
Ora coleopterorum: the margin of the elytra.
Orad: toward the mouth.
Oral: pertaining to the mouth.
Oral cavity: the mouth; = buccal cavity.
Oral fossa: in Mallophaga, a furrow lying in front of the ma
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