Fuseo-rufous: red-brown, approaching liver brown.
Fuseo-testaceous: dull reddish brown [brown ocher].
Fuscous -us: dark brown, approaching black; a plain mixture of black and red [crimson lake + black].
Fused: run together: applied when two normally separated markings become confluent and have a common outline.
Fusiform: spindle-shaped: tapering gradually to each end.
Fusulus: = spinneret, q.v.
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Gales: the outer lobe of the maxilla, usually two-jointed, often hood-like, subject to great modifications in Hymenoptera and Diptera, and forms the coiled tongue in Lepidoptera.
Galeotheca: that part of the pupal case that covers the gales.
Gall: an abnormal swelling or excrescence on a plant, produced by an insect: = cecidium.
Gallicolous: dwellers in galls, whether as producers or inquilines.
Gallivorous: feeding upon galls or gall tissue.
Gamogenesis: reproduction through fertilization: see agamogenesis.
Ganglion -ia: a nerve centre composed of a cell ma.s.s and fibres: the white disc-like bodies connected by a double cord, lying above the ventral surface within the body and forming the centre of the nervous system.
Gasterotheca: that part of the pupa case that covers the abdomen.
Gastric: of or belonging to the belly or to the stomach.
Gastric caeca: = caec.u.m; q.v.
Gastro-coeli: a pair of usually transverse lateral pits near the base of the second abdominal tergite in some Hymenoptera.
Gastro-ileal folds: occur in some insects at the junction of the chylific ventricle with the ileum and serve as a valve.
Gastrula: that embryonic stage resembling a sac, with an outer layer of epiblastic cells and an inner layer of hypoblastic cells.
Gastrulation: the process of forming a gastrula.
Gathering hairs: the soft, flattened, often hooked hairs on the tongue of bees and other Hymenoptera; = hooked hairs.
Gelatinous: of a jelly-like texture or consistency: viscid.
Geminate: arranged in pairs composed of two similar parts: doubled.
Gemmate -us: marked with metallic or bright colored spots.
Gemmiparous: applied to that form of as.e.xual reproduction where new individuals arise as buds from the germ body of the parent.
Gena -ae: the cheeks; includes that portion of the head on each side below the eyes, and extends to the gular suture: in Odonata the area between the eyes and clypeus and mouth parts: in Diptera the s.p.a.ce between the lower border of the eye and oral margin, merging into face at front and limited by the occipital margin behind.
Genal bristles: Diptera; are on the cheeks near lower corner of eye.
Generalized: primitive: containing in combination characters that are separated and specialized in other forms.
Generation: used as the equivalent of brood; q.v.
Genicular arc: Orthoptera; a curved dark marking on the posterior knee-joint.
Geniculate: knee jointed: abruptly bent in an obtuse angle.
Geniculum: a little knee or bend.
Genital armature: all the processes concerned in copulation.
Genital hamule: a little hook or plate covering the a.n.a.l cavity of the male: the supra-a.n.a.l or genital hook: in Lepidoptera, the uncut: in Odonata, in the plural, one or two pairs of lateral processes of the male genitalia on the ventral surface of the second abdominal segment.
Genital hook: = genital hamule.
Genitalia: the external organs of generation with all appendages.
Genital lobes: in Odonata, a pair of-backward and downwardly directed processes from the 2d abdominal segment, between which the vesicle of the p.e.n.i.s lies.
Genital papilla: in some Smynthurids, a tubercular elevation upon which the genital aperture opens.
Genital spike: the sheath of p.e.n.i.s which, in male Diaspinae takes the form of a long mucronate spike.
Genital tuft: in Lepidoptera; an expansible tuft of fine hair believed to be scent-producing.
Genital valve: Odonata; a chitinous piece on each side of the ovipositor, derived from the sternum of abdominal segment 9: probably = outer pair of gonapophyses.
Genoholotype: the species on which a genus is founded, whether unique or one of a series, specifically named as generic type by the author.
Genolectotype: the one species of a series selected as the type of the genus in which the describer of the genus placed it, subsequent to the description.
Genosyntype: one of a series of species upon which a genus is founded, no one species being mentioned as type.
Genus: knee; the joint between femur and tibia.
Genus: an a.s.semblage of species agreeing in some one character or series of characters; usually considered as arbitrary and opinionative, though some consider it a natural a.s.semblage.
Geometrid: larva which, when walking, alternately elevate and straighten the middle of their body: opposed to rectigrade; q.v.