mesopleural suture

Culicidae Classification

Culicidae Classification (2)

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Submitted by Ralph Harbach on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 16:08

The external groove (pleural suture) of the mesopleural ridge; extending from the base of the wing to the midcoxal articulation; separating the mesepisternum from the mesepimeron.

Snodgrass (1912) first denoted the pleural suture of the mesothorax but did not employ the term mesopleural suture directly.

mesepimeral suture, pleural sulcus, pleural suture 2