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mx id: 3853 | OBO id: HAO:0000369 | URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0000369

gaster

Definition:

The anatomical cluster that is composed of all abdominal segments posterior to abdominal segment 2.

written by: Miko, I., M. Bertone, M. Yoder, A. Deans, S. Katja, N. Johnson, S. Brady, P. Ward, F. Ronquist, E. Talamas, L. Krogmann, L. Vilhelmsen, C. Rasmussen, G. Broad, A. Lucky, and B. G. 2010. HAO/Biosync working meeting II..

Relationships / properties:

The gaster is a anatomical cluster.

The gaster is part of the metasoma.

gaster by Deans, A. R. 2009. HAO curator..

gaster by Gibson , G. A. P., J. D. Read , and R. Fairchild. 1998. Chalcid wasps (Chalcidoidea): illustrated glossary of positional and morphological terms ..

gaster by Sharkey, M.J. and R.A. Wharton 1997. Morphology and terminology. Pages 19-38. In: Wharton, R.A., P.M. Marsh, and M.J. Sharkey (Eds), Manual of the New World genera of Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Special Publication of the International Society of Hymenopterists. Vol. 1: 1-439 pp.

alternative definition added over 13 years ago by Istvan Miko

The posteriormost of the three main body regions of a chalcid, which looks like the insect abdomen but excludes both the first 'true' abdominal segment, the propodeum, and the second 'true' abdominal segment, the petiole (see also metasoma).

Reference: Gibson , G. A. P., J. D. Read , and R. Fairchild. 1998. Chalcid wasps (Chalcidoidea): illustrated glossary of positional and morphological terms ..
Cross reference: None provided.

alternative definition added over 13 years ago by Katja Seltmann

The terminal enlarged tagma of the ant body, located immediately beyond the waist and constituted of the abdominal segments 4-7 or of the abdominal segments 3-7 when the abdominal segment 3 is or is not differentiated into a postpetiole, respectively.

Reference: Leponce, M., T. Delsinne , Y. Laurent, J. Cillis, I. Bachy, A. Heughebaert, P. Desmet, and N. Youdjou. 2010. RBINS Ant eMuseum Paraguay Collection Glossary. Availble at http://projects.biodiversity.be/ants/.
Cross reference: None provided.

alternative definition added almost 14 years ago by Bob Wharton

The anatomical cluster composed of all abdominal segments posterior to the petiole (abdominal segment 2) in Ichneumonoidea

Reference: Sharkey, M.J. and R.A. Wharton 1997. Morphology and terminology. Pages 19-38. In: Wharton, R.A., P.M. Marsh, and M.J. Sharkey (Eds), Manual of the New World genera of Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Special Publication of the International Society of Hymenopterists. Vol. 1: 1-439 pp.
Cross reference: None provided.

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