Definition & Meaning | English word SCUTELLAR

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Definitions of SCUTELLAR

1. Relating to the scutellum
2. (entomology) Short for scutellar bristles.

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Examples of Using SCUTELLAR in a Sentence

• The notopleural callus and postsutural scutal margin of some specimens are obscurely yellowish, and the ventral scutellar fringe is short and sparse.
• Sphegina generally have a face strongly concave and bare in both sexes, antennal basoflagellomere oval with a long dorsal and pilose arista; eyes bare and dichoptic in both sexes; postpronotum pilose; metasternum and katepisternum non-pilose; ventral scutellar fringe absent; alula narrow or absent; postmetacoxal bridge complete and broad; metaleg much longer than pro- and mesoleg and with incrassate femur; abdomen petiolate.
• The thorax is heavily pilose, with a ventral scutellar fringe present, and the anterior anepisternum is bare, (pilose in Trichopsomyia).
• Dicots pass through the globular, heart-shaped, and torpedo stages while monocots pass through globular, scutellar, and coleoptilar stages.
• The Acemyiini have a distinctive pattern of scutellar bristling among the Tachinidae, comprising three pairs of very strong setae; one pair of crossed apical setae, a diverging subapical pair set unusually far forwards, and a basal pair which may be approximately parallel or converging.
• 7 times longer than wide; longitudinal costulae running from the lateral margin of its pronotal plate to the lateral surface of its pronotum are very short or absent altogether; notauli are sinuate; no scutellar foveae are present; simple claws, sometimes carrying a short basal lobe.
• 5 mm, antennal arista plumose on the dorsal surface but bare on the ventral; thorax scutum mostly red-brown with 6 scutellar setae, scutellum flat and bare of microsetae, abdomen with black tip, tibia of the mid leg with one strong apical spine, a distinctive dark pattern on the wing, and abdominal tergites fulvous (reddish-yellow, tawny) with the third to fifth having transverse black patterns.
• kinseyi in the sexual generation by weakly delimited scutellar foveae separated broadly by a ridge and a distinctive areolet in the asexual generation.
• treatae in the sexual generation by deeply delimited scutellar foveae separated narrowly by a carina, and its reddish brown color as well as indistinctive areolet in the asexual generation.

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