suranal
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Etymology
Adjective
suranal (comparative more suranal, superlative most suranal)
- Above the anus or a body part associated with the anus.
- 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).: Geology series:
- There are three suranal plates, two along the axis connecting ambulacrum III with interambulacrum 5, and one to the right of this axis, towards ocular plate II.
- 1978, Israel Journal of Entomology - Volumes 12-14, page 94:
- The species which have suranal ducts are in genera that have frame ducts in the second-stage males, and therefore have been found consistentiy only in the Chionaspidini.
- 1990, Otakar Kudrna, Introduction to Lepidopterology, →ISBN, page 91:
- Confusion may occur with some Saturniidae - which however, have biordinal crochets (usually triordinal in butterfly larvae with scoli) - also no scoli on the head and no suranal 'tails'.
- 2006, James T. Costa, The Other Insect Societies, →ISBN, page 654:
- Larvae use setiform thoracic legs and a suranal hook to help propel themselves along, aided by silk.
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