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apterous

(ăp′tər-əs)

adj.

Having no wings or winglike extensions: an apterous insect.

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Small to very large species (6-42 mm); generally concolorous, rarely with conspicuous markings; predominantly micropterous and apterous forms.

Sinopsis de la familia Reduviidae (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) de Chile

Usinger & Matsuda 0959: 200) gave a key to the 10 known apterous American genera of Mezirinae.

Tobyschuhaptera amazonica gen. n, sp. n, from Brazil (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae)

In both the greenhouse and the field, we found that apterous strawberry aphids moved among plants.

Effect of host-plant genotype and neighboring plants on strawberry aphid movement in the greenhouse and field

Each experimental unit was infested with 10 apterous adult aphids, which were confined in individualized tubular cages (15 cm in diameter by 61 cm in height) constructed of transparent plastic (Makrolon Tuffak Lexan) covered with organdy cloth.

Evaluating categories of resistance in soybean genotypes from the United States and Brazil to Aphis glycines (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

A fairly similar distribution exists in the Tabariini, a small group of three currently monospecific genera of apterous and very long-legged katydids of spider-like appearance, the only South American representatives of the otherwise Old World subfamily Mecopodinae.

Two mysterious tiny katydids from the Ecuadorian Andes (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Hexacentrinae)

Many species of Ptilomerinae are only known from apterous morphs; macropterous forms are rare and often dealate (Chen et al.

What do we know about the phylogeny of the semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: heteroptera: gerromorpha)?

Twenty apterous aphids (third or fourth instars) were removed with a fine brush from a leaf of infested pepper plants on which they were reared and placed on the pepper leaf disks in small Petri dishes lined with moistened cotton under the pepper leaf for each concentration.

Susceptibility of three strains of green peach aphid Myzus Persicae Sulzer (Homoptera: Aphididae) for four pesticides

Aristotle's mnemonic tokens functioned indeed like sunglasses but then what Reformation's winds facilitating the adaptation of apterous fly did was without precedent: throw glasses away and give up any mental representation at all.

Memory, imaginary and Aristotelian epistemology. On the nature of "apterous fly"

Each group carefully transferred four apterous (wingless) adult aphids from stock plants to each of their plants with an eyelash brush.

Building ecological complexity in the classroom using pea aphids & components of their community

Aphids' life cycles are very intricate and can imply both sexual and asexual reproduction as alate and apterous forms (Nieto Nafria et al.

Aphididae (Hemiptera) en plantas ornamentales de Cordoba (Argentina)

Diuraphis aizenberg (Homoptera: Aphididae): Key to apterous viviparous females, and a review of Russian language literature on the natural history of Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov, 1913).

Molecular mapping and allelic relationships of Russian wheat aphid-resistance genes

Water content, weight change, and activity of apterous and alate virginoparous Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Homoptera: Aphididae).