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cornicle
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cornicle [′kȯr·nə·kəl]
(invertebrate zoology)
Either of two protruding horn-shaped dorsal tubes in aphids which secrete a waxy fluid.


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Morphologically, the genus Aulacorthum is well characterized by "head with well developed antennal tubercles, inner sides of tubercles nearly parallel; median tubercle on frons hardly developed; head usually granulate in apterous; first tarsal chaetotaxy 3:3:3; siphunculi cylindrical, or slightly swollen, normally broad at base, rather long with usually a few row of flat hexagonal cells at apex under broad distal flange; cauda tongue-shaped with 4-8 setae, mostly 7 setae.
cuschensis because (1) membranous distal part of the caudal knob in apterous viviparous females is small, contrasting very little with the rest of the knob; (2) the dorsum of head, antennae, legs, and siphunculi are very weakly pigmented in apterous viviparous females; (3) setiferous sclerites are absent from dorsum of abdomen in apterous viviparous females; and (4) they are green when alive.
 
 
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