Cinnabarine: [vermilion red].
Cinnamomeous: cinnamon brown [burnt sienna].
Cinema: see Thysanura, of which this forms a group including the bristle-tails, and for which it has been used as an equivalent.
Circinal: spirally rolled like a watch-spring or a butterfly tongue.
Circiter: about, or round-about.
Circular: round like a circle.
Circumgenital glands: small circular glands with an excretory orifice at tip, disposed in groups about the genital orifice in Diaspinae.
Circumoesophageal commissures: those cords or nerve fibres connecting the suboesophageal ganglion with the main trunk of nervous system.
Circumsepted: with a vein all around the wing.
Citrate: antennae with very long, curled lateral branches which may or may not be ciliated; see plumose.
Cirrose -us: with somewhat dense curled hair.
Cirrus: a curled lock of hair placed on a thin stalk.
Citrine -us: lemon yellow [chrome yellow].
Cladocerous: with branched horns or antennae.
Clasper: a chitinized process, free or attached to the inner sides of harpes, valves or other lateral pieces, serving to hold the female parts during copulation: = the harpers of some authors.
Claspette: in genitalia of male culicids, the inner basal lobe of side piece; q.v.
Clasp-filament: in male genitalia of culicids the articulated appendage or terminal segment of side-piece or clasp; sometimes bears an articulated point or apex and then = articulated apex.
Class: a division of the animal kingdom lower than a sub-kingdom and higher than an order: e.g. the "Class Insecta."
Classification: is the systematic arrangement of insects (or other animals or plants) in series showing their relation or agreement in structure, life habits or other characters forming the basis of the "classification."
Clathrate: latticed or lattice-like in appearance.
Claustrum: the structure uniting the wings in flight, whether by hooks, by a thickening of the margin, or by a jugum.
Clava: a club; the enlarged apical joints of a clubbed antenna: = clavola.
Claval suture: Hemiptera; at the base of hemelytra, separating the clavus.
Clavate: clubbed: thickening gradually toward the tip.
Clavate hairs: in Collembola, = tenent hairs.
Clavicornia: that series of beetles having the antennae more or less distinctly enlarged or clubbed at tip.
Clavicular lobe: Homoptera; that portion of hind wing behind anal veins.
Claviform: club-like in form; specifically, in Noctuid moths an elongate spot or mark extending from the t. a. line through the submedian interspace, toward and sometimes to the t.p. line.
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