preabdomen
nounEtymology From pre- + abdomen.
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The enlarged anterior portion of the abdomen of a scorpion or sea scorpion
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Biology, Entomology, Natural sciences The anterior segments of the abdomen, distinguished from the posterior segments holding the reproductive apparatus.
- The anthomyiid oviscapt (postabdomen) is as regards the ground plan undoubtedly slender, well set off from and hardly shorter than the preabdomen, and has slender cerci with projecting, cylindrical apices.2013, Verner Michelsen, “Proposal of Karliella gen. n. for the Afrotropical ‘Pegomya’ sexpunctata Karl, 1935 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), a possible kleptoparasite of dung-breeding beetles”, in African Invertebrates, volume 54, number 2, →DOI, pages 335–347: