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mx id: 1128 | OBO id: HAO:0000884 | URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0000884
pulvillum
Defined (both definition and relationships must be met)
Definition:
The area that is located laterally on the pretarsus and arises beneath the proximal part of the tarsal claw.
written by: Miko, I. 2009. -2019 Curator. Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology.

Relationships / properties:
The pulvillum is a area.
The pulvillum is part of the cuticle. The pulvillum is part of the pretarsus.

Label usage (sensu)
pulvillum by Miko, I. 2009. -2019 Curator. Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology.
Comments and tags
comment added over 13 years ago by Istvan Miko
The class is absent from Hymenoptera. Pulvillum is the distal extension of the auxiliar sclerite in Diptera.
  Reference: None provided.
  Cross reference: None provided.

alternative definition added over 14 years ago by Istvan Miko
Lateral lobes of the pretarsus arising beneath the bases of the claws.
  Reference: Snodgrass, R. E. 1935. Principles of insect morphology. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York & London 667 pp.
  Cross reference: None provided.


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