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Definition of Prothoraces
1. prothorax [n] - See also: prothorax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prothoraces
Literary usage of Prothoraces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... heads and prothoraces of some of the males of these Insects are truly
extraordinary, and it does not appear possible to explain their existence by any ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"... I perceive that they possess abundant distinctive features of their own.
Apart from their more conical, anteriorly-produced prothoraces, ..."
3. Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands by David Sharp, Royal Society (Great Britain), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Royal Society (Great Britain (1913)
"All the genera belong to that section, which comprises the insects with short
prothoraces, and they represent four distinct sub-families. ..."
4. The Indian Forester (1903)
"... enormous projections and horns on there heads and prothoraces, the use of
which is not at present understood. Members of the family are common in India. ..."
5. Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of Madeira in the Collection of the by Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1857)
"... pilose bodies, and basally truncated prothoraces: whilst the characters which
separate the L. pilosus from its Madeiran ally may be immediately gathered ..."
6. Bulletin by Natural History Society of New Brunswick (1897)
"... the head is distinctly separated from the thorax, and not connected by a broad
base as in our species ; they also have transversely oval prothoraces. ..."
7. A Manual of Elementary Forest Zoology for India by Edward Percy Stebbing (1908)
"The beetles themselves are large bulky insects, the males often having enormous
projections and horns on their heads and prothoraces the use of which is at ..."
8. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria by Frederick Du Cane Godman (1896)
"... and from the slight difference in the prothoraces I infer that they are the
sexes ; I can see no difference in the legs ; the elytra appear a little ..."
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