Anthropod Flashcards
Antropod
s an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages (paired appendages).
Molting
shedding
Pheromones
a chemical substance that an animal or insect produces in order to attract other animals or insects and especially a mate.
Thorax
above the abdomen, includes rib cage that encloses heart and lungs.
Abdomen
Region of the body in between the thorax and the pelvis.
Cephalothorax
also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind.
Exoskeleton
is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animal’s body
Cheliped
one of the pair of legs that bears the large chelae in decapod crustaceans.
Malpighian
is a type of excretory and osmoregulatory system found in some insects, myriapods, arachnids, and tardigrades
Arachnid
spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks
Spiders
Air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom
Metamprphosis
process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal’s body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
Crustaceans
lobsters, crabs, shrimp, and barnacles
Insects
any small air-breathing arthropod of the class Insecta, having a body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs, and (in most species) two pairs of wings.
Antennae
are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods. Antennae are connected to the first one or two segments of the arthropod head. They vary widely in form, but are always made of one or more jointed segments.
