clypeus in English

noun
1
a broad plate at the front of an insect's head.
Although the clypeus and labrum of Reboursia exhibit a sphaeromatoid shape, it has a broad separation between the antennular basal articles.

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2. A typical Booklouse is small and soft-bodied, measuring about 1 to 2 mm or less in length, with a distinctive bulgy clypeus, an area above the mouthparts

3. Features of P. annosus unique for the large recent genus Polyrhachis include a large first gastral segment, a scapus attached at some distance from the clypeus, and an alitrunk (mesosoma) and petiole each with a pair of teeth or spines.

4. Other articles where Booklouse is discussed: insect: Annotated classification: Order Psocoptera (booklice or psocids) Small or minute insects with long filiform antennae, delicate membranous wings (though many are wingless), head with Y-shaped epicranial suture, enlarged post-clypeus (sclerite on the face); maxilla with a rodlike lacinia (inner lobe) partly sunk into head capsule; labial palps

5. Bisinuate-with two incisions Carinate-keeled or having raised lines Convex-curved or rounded outward Elytra-the forewings of beetles Frons-the upper anterior portion of the head capsule, usually a distinct sclerite (any plate on the body wall) between the epicranium (upper part of the head) and clypeus (part of head below the frons)