Identifier: insectsabroadbe00wood (find matches)
Title: Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insects
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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hit,. lOii. —Acripeza reticulata. Female.(Grppii-brown, mottled with black.) dark in colour, w^ith a row of Mhite spots on the edge of eachsegment. The leos are banded after a similar fashion. Thereis no ovipositor in this species, although it exists in severalinsects which are closely allied to it. The male Acripeza is so different from the female, that thetwo insects scarcely seem to belong to the same species. Hisbody, instead of being large and rounded, is slightly made, andnot one quarter as large as tliat of his mate. The elytra arevery large and long, and the wings of corresponding dimensions; PLATE VT
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THE DIFFERENCE IN THE SEXES. 325 so that when they are opened, the insect seems to be all wingand no body. It has just been mentioned that although the Acripeza has noovipositor, there are allied insects which do possess that organ.These belong mostly to the genera Ephippiger, Nabrus, and Odon-tura. The last-mentioned insect inhabits many parts of Europe,

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