Across
- 1. Inward-projecting ridges in the insect integument that provide additional structural support and attachment points for muscles, etc.
- 6. Type of insect leg specialized for digging.
- 8. Structures on many insects that work much like rear antennae.
- 10. Distal portion of the labium which functions much like a lower lip in preventing food from sliding ventrally away from the mouth
- 11. The middle section of the insect thorax.
- 13. Type of insect eye in which light entering any ommatidium is only focused on its rhabdom and not able to diffuse to the surrounding ommatidia
- 17. Sclerotized region on the maxilla of insects that aids in grasping and manipulating food items.
- 19. Type of protein found in insects and other arthropods that provides elasticity, like a rubber band.
- 20. Type of insect metamorphosis that has at least 4 main developmental stages (egg, larva, pupa, adult)and is also known as complete metamorphosis.
Down
- 2. Insect forewings that are hardened and work as protective coverings of the hindwings.
- 3. Type of insect antennae that appear as “pearls on a string”.
- 4. Proximal portion of the insect leg that articulates with the body.
- 5. A tube down which some female insects lay their eggs.
- 7. General term for structures either on the maxillae or labium that function in tasting and manipulating food.
- 9. First segment of the insect antenna that articulates with the head.
- 12. One of the ventral hardened plates on an insect.
- 14. The general term for a hardened plate of the insect integument.
- 15. Simple insect eye mainly sensitive to light and dark.
- 16. Polysaccharide of which insect exoskeletons are mainly composed.
- 18. The dorsal plate on the prothorax.