scissorial

English

Adjective

scissorial (not comparable)

  1. (entomology) Relating to the cutting areas on the mandibles of Scarabaeoidea larvae (between the dentes and molar area).[1]
    • 1994, Giovanni Onore, Description of the immature stages of six species of Sphaenognathus, with comparative notes on phylogeny and natural history (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lucanidae)‎[2], page 80:
      [...] with small dorsomolar setae on base of molar area, one large caudolateral seta at scissorial notch and one large lateral seta on molar area[.]
    • 2007, African Entomology‎[3], page 204:
      Each mandible has two scissorial teeth and a proximal tooth, the mola.
    • 2018, S. A. Shabalin, Description of the larva of Acanthobodilus languidulus (Schmidt, 1916) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)‎[4], page 4:
      Left mandible slightly longer than right one, its scissorial part wider.

References

  1. ^ Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology‎[1], 2005, page 807
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