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cibarial armature

Edited by Ralph Harbach on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 00:18

Abbreviation:

CA

Definition:

In some female mosquitoes, a series of specialised spicules, cibarial teeth, borne on a transverse ridge, cibarial crest, and a group of spiculate ridges, cibarial ridges, lying ventrally at the posterior margin of the cibarium.

Synonyms:

bucco-pharyngeal apparatus, bucco-pharyngeal armature, pharyngeal armature, ventral pharyngeal valve
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