proleg

(prō′lĕg′)

One of the stubby limbs on the abdominal segments of caterpillars and certain other insect larvae.

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To calculate the duty factor, a threshold velocity (5% to 10% of the peak velocity) was set above which the proleg velocity increased monotonically for at least 300 ms at the start of the swing; the duration above this threshold was defined as swing phase and that below it the stance.

Each step in the proleg-bearing segments was composed of a stance phase, during which the prolegs were attached to the substrate by the cuticular hooks (crochets); and a swing phase, during which the crochets were unhooked from the substrate, raised, and moved forward along with the segment as part of a crawl.

Kinematics of soft-bodied, legged locomotion in Manduca sexta larvae

For many scholars, the proof of Grotius' modernity is his conviction that there would be a law of nature by which to govern human affairs "even if we should concede that which cannot be conceded without the utmost wickedness, that there is no God" (JBP, proleg.

A Normative Approach to War: Peace, War, and Justice in Hugo Grotius

Legs': Coxae blackish; proleg dirty yellowish dark brown.

Three new species of the bothriomirine genus Leprocapsus Poppius from Indonesia (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae)

8], present on all legs of all specimens, spine-like on proleg and elongate and hair-like on the meso- and metalegs of all but one specimen.

A redescription of the first instar of Rhantus calidus (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) with notes on its biology

Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas, 1971) 1:1-45 (hereafter, Proleg.

The sacramental world in the Sentences of Peter Lombard

This nerve contains motor axons that innervate ipsilateral proleg muscles of the same segment.

Neurons associated with a novel motor pattern expressed during metamorphosis of the Hawkmoth, Manduca sexta

Head-to-head Asynarchus encounters with Limnephilus and conspecifics often involved proleg wrestling and biting, and occasionally escalated into intraguild predation or cannibalism.

Intraguild predation and cannibalism among larvae of detritovorous caddisflies in subalpine wetlands

He did diagnose species using the anal proleg chaetotaxy, but as pointed out by Stehr (1987), this segment has the most confusing homology of any part of the caterpillar body.

A phylogenetic test of Ehrlich and raven's theory of escape and radiation in insects that feed on toxic plants, based on nearctic Depressaria moths (Gelechioidea: Elachistidae: Depressariinae), with discussion of the evolution of genitalia

Intraspecific variation is common and the number of sensilla often increases progressively from the proleg to the metaleg on mature larvae of various dytiscid taxa [11, 16-20].

BIOLOGY OF COPELATUS CAELATIPENNIS PRINCEPS YOUNG (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE: COPELATINAE) WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE MATURE LARVA

All trochanters had anteroventral series of natotory sensilla although this series was less developed on the proleg.

NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF DYTISCUS CARLINUS AUBE (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE) IN CENTRAL GEORGIA WITH A DESCRIPTION OF ITS MATURE LARVA

Prolegs with lateroseries of crochets and several long and apically pointed plumose setae (Fig.

Larval cryptic coloration and mistletoe use in the metalmark butterfly Dachetola azora (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)