postabdomen

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ abdomen.

Noun

postabdomen (plural postabdomens or postabdomina)

1. (zoology) The part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax.
2. (entomology) The terminal segments of the abdomen of an insect, modified for reproduction.
   • 1969, George C. Steyskal, “The Postabdomen of Cinderella, with a New Species from Argentina (Diptera: Heleomyzidae)”, in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, volume 42, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 80–83:

     The postabdomens of both sexes of Cinderella lampra Steyskal and of the unique female of C. aczeli, n. sp. (Mendoza, Argentina) are described.

   • 2011, Hans-Peter Tschorsnig, “A new species of Istocheta Rondani (Diptera: Tachinidae) from the Mercantour National Park, France”, in Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A (Neue Serie), volume 4, pages 335–340:

     No special preparation in glycerine of male and female postabdomina were made because the features of diagnostic importance are well visible in dry condition, but as a result not all characters of the postabdomina can be described.

   • 2013, Verner Michelsen, “Proposal of Karliella gen. n. for the Afrotropical ‘Pegomya’ sexpunctata Karl, 1935 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), a possible kleptoparasite of dung-breeding beetles”, in African Invertebrates, volume 54, number 2, →DOI, pages 335–347:

     The anthomyiid oviscapt (postabdomen) is as regards the ground plan undoubtedly slender, well set off from and hardly shorter than the preabdomen, and has slender cerci with projecting, cylindrical apices.

Synonyms

• (part of a crustacean): abdomen
• (terminal segments of an insect): terminalia, hypopygium

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French postabdomen.

Noun

postabdomen n (plural postabdomene)

1. postabdomen

Declension

Declension of postabdomen

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	postabdomen	postabdomenul		postabdomene	postabdomenele
genitive-dative	postabdomen	postabdomenului		postabdomene	postabdomenelor
vocative	postabdomenule			postabdomenelor