Mesopleuron

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The lateral surface of the mesothorax

    "In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids)."

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"In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids)."

Etymology

From meso- + pleuron.

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