单词 | chætotaxy |
释义 | chætotaxy|ˈkiːtəʊtæksɪ| [f. Gr. χαίτη + τάξις: see chæta and -taxy.] The arrangement or plan of distribution of the bristles on the bodies of insects.
1893E. A. Butler Our Household Insects 188 The plan of their distribution has been called by Osten-Sacken chætotaxy, i.e., bristle arrangement. 1903Entomol. News 247 A careful exposition of the chaetotaxy of the Muscidæ. 1925A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Ent. i. 8 In recent years chætotaxy, or the study of the arrangement of the more important setæ, has assumed a good deal of significance from the taxonomic point of view, particularly with reference to the Cyclorrhapha and larval Lepidoptera. |

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