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Photo#37511
Frontal view of insect head

Frontal view of insect head
Derived from several figures in (1).

On the left, the commonly defined areas of the head are shown.
Antenna (in yellow)
Clp, clypeus
E, compound eye
Fr, frons
Ge, gena
Md, mandible
ocelli (in blue)
sge, subgena
Vx, vertex

On the right, "the common external sulci ... (generally called “sutures”)" (Snodgrass 1960) are shown.
(at, anterior tentorial pit)
cas, circumantennal
cos, circumocular
es, epistomal
mcs, midcranial
sgs, subgenal
sos, subocular
ts, temporal

These images replace, in part, two hand-drawn figures uploaded in 2005 which were improperly removed and frassed in January 2025.

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