corpotentorium
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin corpus + tentorium.
Noun
[edit]corpotentorium (plural corpotentoria)
- (entomology) A median ventral plate of the tentorium of some insects.
- 1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect-anatomy[1]:
- The large bar extending cephalad from each end of the corpotentorium to a pretentorina is a pretentorium.
- 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 12:
- In more primitive insects a median plate called the corpotentorium is sometimes formed between the two sides of the tentorium, but this plate is poorly developed or absent in Diptera.