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One feature in which the larva often agrees with the imago is the possession on the terminal abdominal segment of a pair of long jointed cerci, and in many genera a median jointed tail-process (see fig. 9) is also present, in some cases both in the larva and the imago, in others in the larva during its later stages only.

—The Life-Story of Insects

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Plural of cercus.

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This is the most direct evidence to date of a stride integrator that is flexible enough to account for significant variation in stride length and frequency. behavior bird brain cerci cockroach comparative control cricket crustacean evolution flight haltere insect integration intention load moth motion neuroethology path saccade spatial vision walking CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. — CiteULike: Everyone's library
One feature in which the larva often agrees with the imago is the possession on the terminal abdominal segment of a pair of long jointed cerci, and in many genera a median jointed tail-process (see fig. 9) is also present, in some cases both in the larva and the imago, in others in the larva during its later stages only. — The Life-Story of Insects
Anal fork: applied to the cerci of Coleopterous larvae. — Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Cercopoda: jointed foot-like appendages of the last abdominal segment; also applied like cerci. — Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Cercus: see cerci. — Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology