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Glossary of entomology terms
Senin, 2026-08-03 08:55:05

covering themselves with their own frass. rhizophagy feeding on rhizomes. saltatorial adapted for leaping or jumping. sarconecrophagy feeding on dead bodies...

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Arthropod leg
Senin, 2026-08-10 14:29:16

region of the leg; it is especially conspicuous in many insects with saltatorial legs because the typical leaping mechanism is to straighten the joint...

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Rodent
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:24:02

human-made environments. Species can be arboreal, fossorial (burrowing), saltatorial/ricochetal (leaping on their hind legs), or semiaquatic. They tend to...

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Systena frontalis
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 02:16:32

that contrasts its black body. Like other flea beetles, it has powerful saltatorial hind legs specialized for jumping. Like all beetles, this insect is holometabolous...

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Thumb
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:27:27

species such as Hapalomys, Chiropodomys, Vandeleuria, and Chiromyscus, and saltatorial, bipedal species such as Notomys and possibly some Gerbillinae. The East...

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Cursorial
Rabu, 2026-07-22 01:09:59

bipedal and can hop quickly to move around, which is called ricochetal or saltatorial instead of cursorial. There are also bipedal cursors. Humans are bipedal...

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Spinifex hopping mouse
Minggu, 2026-03-22 00:31:09

; Seymour, Roger S. (2006). "Balancing the competing requirements of saltatorial and fossorial specialization: burrowing costs in the spinifex hopping...

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South African springhare
Rabu, 2026-08-12 00:32:53

average of 2.5–3.5 kg (5.5–7.7 lb). Similar to kangaroos, they are also saltatorial animals who use their tails for balance. Springhares are reported to...

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Dimorphodon
Jumat, 2026-08-21 01:19:10

low center of gravity. Like modern squirrels, it probably moved in a saltatorial manner as it climbed. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dimorphodon...

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Phaneroptera nana
Selasa, 2026-01-20 07:24:55

nana)". orthsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-11-11. Bruner, Lawrence (1922). "Saltatorial Orthoptera from South America and the Isle of Pines". Annals of the Carnegie...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z
Kamis, 2025-06-19 11:02:45

salacious, salacity, salience, salient, sally, saltando, saltant, saltation, saltatorial, saltatory, saltigrade, saltire, salto, saltus, sault, sauté, sauteuse...

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Chromacris speciosa
Jumat, 2026-07-03 02:46:27

Amer. Entomol. Soc.) 42 (753):215-308 [284] Rehn, J.A.G. (1907) Non-Saltatorial and Acridoid Orthoptera from Sapucay, Paraguay, Proceedings of the Academy...

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George Basil Popov
Senin, 2025-08-18 04:14:36

undertook a study on the locusts of Socotra. This led to his paper on the saltatorial Orthoptera of Socotra, and the first systematic description of its vegetation...

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Evolution of primates
Senin, 2026-08-24 22:33:47

surprising convergence with lorises. Galagos are characterized by leaping saltatorial locomotion aided by elongated tarsal bones and insectivory, while lorises...

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Pseudopulex
Jumat, 2026-05-29 20:48:03

pair of long claws; however, unlike extant fleas, they lacked enlarged saltatorial hind legs. Several features are used to distinguish the species of Pseudopulex;...

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RAR-related orphan receptor beta
Kamis, 2025-12-18 14:33:47

this gene also results in the loss of spinal cord interneurons and of saltatorial locomotion, a type of hopping gait that in mammals can be found in rabbits...

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Evolution of insects
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:00:49

this time period. From which time even the distinctive synapomorphy of saltatorial, or adaptive for jumping, hind legs is preserved. Palaeodictyopteroidea...

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Insect morphology
Senin, 2026-08-24 07:10:11

have well-developed femora and tibiae on all legs, whereas jumping (saltatorial) insects such as grasshoppers have disproportionately developed metafemora...

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Meadow jumping mouse
Selasa, 2026-08-04 03:45:54

The most interesting characteristic of the meadow jumping mouse is its saltatorial powers. Quimby states that there is large disagreement, dating back to...

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Lagerpeton
Kamis, 2026-06-11 03:40:23

II, digit IV may have elongated to balance the pes. The hypothesis of saltatorial locomotion is debated, however. Vertebral adaptations of extant organisms...

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Anacridium moestum
Senin, 2026-01-19 16:04:39

Roret, Paris i-xviii, 1-776, pl. 1-14 Uvarov & G.B. Popov (1957) The saltatorial Orthoptera of Socotra, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London...

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Scleromochlus
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:50:40

the latter evolved, since early pterosaurs also show adaptations for saltatorial locomotion. A lightly built cursorial animal, its phylogenetic position...

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Atlantic spiny rat
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:00:05

living in colonial burrows, and exhibits incipient specializations for saltatorial locomotion. Trinomys is the sister genus to the fossorial genera Clyomys...

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Albanerpeton
Selasa, 2025-09-30 05:07:13

salamander-like features were held in common with small, limbed, and non-saltatorial amphibians in general. A. inexpectatum had many unique characteristics...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/S
Minggu, 2026-06-21 14:01:53

salacious, salacity, salience, salient, sally, saltando, saltant, saltation, saltatorial, saltatory, saltigrade, saltire, salto, saltus, sault, sauté, sauteuse...

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Zalambdalestidae
Jumat, 2026-08-21 08:41:42

various modern insectivorous species. They are uniquely suited to a saltatorial, cursorial lifestyle, bearing long, semi-digitigrade limbs and a spinal...

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Darwinopterus
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:21:53

speciations towards aerial predation. Instead, it appears to have been a saltatorial insectivore, hopping around both in the trees and on the ground, akin...

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Machilidae
Rabu, 2026-03-04 22:55:08

small, while the meso- and metanota are enlarged. Legs are cursorial and saltatorial, with enlarged hind femora and elongated tibiae that enable the characteristic...

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Machilida
Jumat, 2026-07-17 08:51:22

metathorax, giving the body a hump-backed profile. Legs are cursorial and saltatorial: the hind femora are enlarged and muscular, enabling the characteristic...

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Diatomys
Selasa, 2025-06-10 21:22:06

specializations that might be associated with a fossorial, arboreal, or saltatorial way of life. This has led researchers to assume Diatomys was terrestrial...

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Rhombophryne
Senin, 2026-08-03 22:56:38

and it has been argued that they probably are more terrestrial and saltatorial than the other members of the genus. Rhombophryne proportinalis is a...

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Spumacinctus
Senin, 2026-08-17 01:44:28

(Coleoptera: Scirtidae) from the Neotropical Region, with a key to saltatorial genera". European Journal of Taxonomy (1061): 3285. Bibcode:2026EJTax1061...

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Heermann's kangaroo rat
Selasa, 2026-01-13 07:07:25

On the other hand, when they are moving more quickly they can become saltatorial and can even become ricochetal. When running rapidly their hops can range...

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Calamospondylus
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 13:17:06

pneumatised, that it was arboreal, leaping between trees, or perhaps saltatorial, "bounding from the grasp of other reptiles" like a grasshopper; this...

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Capnobotes fuliginosus
Minggu, 2023-01-29 08:24:29

(ITIS). Retrieved 12 January 2019. Thomas, Cyrus (1872). "Notes on the Saltatorial Orthoptera of the Rocky Mountain Regions". In Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand...

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Anglican Diocese of Dunedin
Senin, 2025-08-11 09:19:26

cross. The word comes from the Middle French sautoir, Medieval Latin saltatorial. In 1814, the Gospel first preached in Aotearoa at Oihi, Northland by...

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Catopsbaatar
Selasa, 2026-08-18 20:23:02

processes in Nemegtbaatar may indicate that some multituberculates were saltatorial (had the ability to jump). Catopsbaatar probably had strong muscles attaching...

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