corpotentorium

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin corpus +‎ tentorium

Noun[edit]

corpotentorium (plural corpotentoria)

  1. (entomology) A median ventral plate of the tentorium of some insects.
    • 1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect-anatomy‎[1]:
      The large bar extending cephalad from each end of the corpotentorium to a pretentorina is a pretentorium.
    • 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 12:
      In more primitive insects a median plate called the corpotentorium is sometimes formed between the two sides of the tentorium, but this plate is poorly developed or absent in Diptera.
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