buccula
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin buccula. By surface analysis, bucc(a) + -ula.
1
A fold of fat beneath the chin.
2
Biology, Entomology, Natural sciences in hemipterans, the ventroanterior part of the bug's head.
- Figure 1. Lateral view of head, showing buccula of N. californicus.1957 October 23, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 1957-10: Vol 30 Iss 4:
- Buccula rounded, without spiny projection at middle1993, H Brailovsky, New genera and new species of Colpurini (Heteroptera: Coreidae) from the Fiji Islands and New Guinea: