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Glossary of arthropod cuticle

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This is a glossary of terms used in the description of arthropod cuticle, including that of insects such as ants. For reasons still under investigation, these animals can have surface textures spanning and combining cracks, excavations, imbrications, mealiness, punctures, reticulations, roughness, scratches, spots, wrinkles, and more (generically, 'sculpturing' or 'microsculpture'). As such, hundreds of technical terms have been adapted for use in description of individual specimens from which taxa are defined.

a-wanting or without

ab-off; away from

aciculatesee also rastrate, scarified appearing as if irregularly scratched with a needle acinosesee also colliculate, granulate, papillate continuously set with granulations like those on a blackberry adsperserare; see also atomarius, irrorate, maculate marked with closely crowded, small spots alutaceousrare; see also coriaceous, coriarious rather pale leather-brown; covered with minute cracks like human skin and leathery in texture alveolatesee also areolate, goffered, reticulate honeycombed; with regular, deep, angular cavities (alveoli) separated by thin partitions; furnished with cells or alveoli areatesee also areolate furnished with open areas or with areas defined on the surface areolatesee also alveolate, areate, goffered, reticulate divided into a number of small, irregular, impressed spaces asperoussee also salebrose, scabrous, squarrose rough and uneven atomariusrare; see also adsperse, irrorate, maculate. with minute dots or points

caelatewith superficial plane elevations of varying form

canaliculaterare; see also porcate, sulcate channelled or furrowed; longitudinally grooved (sensu lato); in general body form, long and concave so as to resemble a gutter or channel (sensu stricto) cancellaterare; see also clathrate, reticulate a latticework or grid; a series of enclosed cells or chambers carinateantonym: ecarinate; diminutive: carinulate; see also costate, cristate, porcate keeled; having keels or carinae; with one, or several, but usually few longitudinal narrow raised ribs or ridges carinulatesee also costulate, cristulate with several small, elevated longitudinal ridges or carinae; less prominent than carinate cariosesee also vermicular, vermiculate corroded; appearing worm-eaten; with cavities or ulcerations cataphractedsee also imbricate, scutate, squamate clad in closely set scales catenatediminutive: catenulate; see also consute with longitudinal, connected elevations like links in a chain catenatechain-like, with smaller links than catenate

channelledrare; see also canaliculate, fluted, striate, strigate having deep grooves or channels cicatroserare; see also impressed, lacunose, variolate a surface having scars with elevated margins like those of small pox clathratesee also cancellate, reticulate latticed; elevated ridges decussing at right angles colliculatesee also acinose, granulate, papillate continuously covered with low, rounded elevations, not as pronounced as acinose conflectedantonym: sparse crowded; thickly clustered confusedsee also intricate, obscure markings with indefinite outlines or run together as lines or spots without definite pattern connectedantonyms: dispersed, sparse; see also conflected scattered; spread irregularly and some distance apart; thin; eg., pile or hairs consutesee also catenate with very minute elevations in series, some distance apart, and of a different color from the general surface, which resemble stitching somewhat coriaceousrare; see also alutaceous, coriarious leather-like in texture, with minute cracks like human skin coriariousrare; see also alutaceous, coriaceous leather-like in sculpture; with minute cracks like human skin corrugatedrare wrinkled into furrows; with alternate ridges and channels corticinusrare; see also fatiscent, fissate, rimose bark-like sculpturing or texture costatediminutive: costulate; see also carinate, cristate, porcate furnished with longitudinal raised ribs or ridges (costae), much coarser than carinate costulatewith longitudinal, coarse raised ribs or ridges; much coarser and more extensive than carinulate; less prominent ribs or ridges than costate

crenatediminutive: crenulate having the margin evenly notched with rounded teeth crenulatehaving the margin finely notched with small, rounded teeth

cristatediminutive: cristulate; see also carinate, costate, porcate with a prominent carina or crest on the upper surface; crested cristulatesee also carinulate with several, small, crescent-like ridges or crests

denudaterare; see also glabrous, immaculate, investitus, nude without hairs or scales (sensu stricto); without vestiture of any kind (sensu lato) destitutelacking or devoid of something specified; being entirely without (used to contrast)

dispersedsee also sparse with scattered markings or small sculptures

e-without

ecarinateantonym: carinate without or deprived of a keel or a carina (used to contrast carinate) echinatediminutive: echinulate thickly set or armed with short, stout spines or prickles; spiny like a hedgehog echinulatewith very small prickles; minutely echinate

elutewith scarcely distinct markings

embossedsee also sculptured ornamented with raised sculpturing ex-out of; proceeding from

exaraterare; see also impressed ploughed; sculpted; furrowed; sulcated; an excavated surface in general excavatedrare; see also lacunose with a scooped out depression; superficially, with a hollowed out area explicateantonym: plicate unfolded or open; also, without folds or plicae exsculptaterare; see also fossulate, scrobiculate with irregular, more or less longitudinal depressions, as if carved or scooped out

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