metazone
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]metazone (plural metazones)
- (anatomy) The posterior zone of the pronotum in an insect of the family Acrididae or Gryllidae.
- Coordinate term: prozone
- 1924, William Williams Henderson, A Taxonomic and Ecological Study of the Species of the Subfamily Oedipodinae (Orthoptera-Acrididae) Found in Utah, page 53:
- Median carina strongly cristate on the prozone and on the metazone and with one deep transverse incision so that the prozone is only about one-third the length of the metazone, the incision inclined anterio-ventrad.