Trichoptera,
specifically, a hyaline spot on second fork of median vein.
Thyrsus: a cluster.
Thysanoptera: fringe-winged: an ordinal term, applied to species with
four narrow, similar wings, lengthily fringed; mouth parts fitted for
puncturing and scraping; metamorphosis incomplete: the Thripids.
Thysanura: fringe-tails; wingless, mandibulate insects without
metamorphosis; with anal appendages; body covered with scales;
thoracic segments similar.
Tiarate -us: turban or tiara-like.
Tibia -ae: the shank: that part of the leg articulated to the femur
basally and which bears the tarsus at the distal end.
Tibial epiphysis: a movable process attached near the base of the
inner side of the anterior tibia in many Lepidoptera.
Tibial membrane: in male Cicada, the drum-like vibratory membrane
that produces the sound.
Tip: the extremity; the part furthest removed from the base.
Titillator: a small process just below the penis in some Orthoptera.
Tomentose: covered with fine hair, so matted together that particular
hairs cannot be separated.
Tomentum: a form of pubescence composed of matted, woolly hair: in
Diptera applied to a covering of short, flattened, more or less
recumbent, scale-like hair which merges gradually into dust or pollen.
Tongue: an indefinite term, applied usually to the coiled mouth
structure of Lepidoptera; the lapping organ of flies; the ligula of bees
and wasps and, sometimes also to the hypopharynx of other insects.
Tooth: an acute angulation: a short pointed process from an
appendage or margin.
Topomorph -ic: a geographic form, variety or subspecies of a widely
distributed species: developed by local environment.
Topotype: is a specimen collected in the exact locality whence the
original type was obtained.
Tornal: relating to or concerning the tornus.
Tornus: in Lepidoptera, the junction of the termen and dorsum of
wing: = hind or anal angle; q.v.
Torose: swelling into knots or protuberances.
Torpid: lying motionless by reason of cold or other natural conditions
that unfavorably affect the organism.
Torqueate: with a ring or collar.
Torquillus: = rotula.
Tortilis: twisted.
Tortulose-us: hump-backed; a surface with a few large elevations:
beaded; moniliform.
Tortuose -us: irregularly curved and bent; snake-like.
Tortuous: = Tortuose.
Torulus: the basal socket joint of the antenna upon which the organ is
articulated for movement in all directions.
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