Gustatory: elating to the sense of taste.
Gutta: a light spot on a dark ground.
Guttate: with light spots or drops on a dark ground.
Gymnocerata: insects with freely movable, conspicuous antennae: see cryptocerata.
Gymnogastra: Hymenoptera; species in which the venter is visible: see cryptogastra.
Gymnoptera: species with membranous wings not covered with scales.
Gynandromorphic: when an individual of one sex exhibits on one lateral half the organic characters of the other, more or less completely.
Gyri-cerebrales: lobes of the oesophageal ganglion of the embryo, connected with the primary lobe: = stalked bodies.
Habena: a fascia on the thorax.
Habit -us: the port or aspect: used to express a resemblance in general appearance.
Habitat; abbreviated Hab.: the region or place which an insect inhabits or where it was taken.
Haemoglobin: the coloring matter of blood which serves to carry oxygen.
Haemolymph: the watery blood or lymph-like nutritive fluid of the lower invertebrates.
Haemoxanthine: a dissolved albuminoid in the insect blood, which has both a respiratory and nutritive function.
Hair: a slender, flexible filament of equal diameter.
Hairy: covered or clothed with hair.
Halophilous: species living in salt marshes, or near the sea.
Halterata: the Diptera.
Halteres: the poisers or balancers: capitate movable filaments in Diptera, situated one on each side of the thorax and representing rudimentary hind wings.
Halteriptera: the Diptera.
Hamule -us: furnished with hooks, or bent like a hook.
Hammock: the hammock-like covering of the caterpillars of certain moths. Hamule: a little hook.
Hamuli: Odonata; one or two pairs of hooked processes projecting from the ventral surface of the 2d abdominal segment of the male; usually termed genital hamules: in Hymenoptera; minute hooks on the anterior margin of secondaries used to unite them in flight with the inner margin of primaries: in tree crickets, hook-like processes of the male genitalia.
Hamus: Lepidoptera; a hook or loop attached to the under side of costal margin of primaries near base, to receive the frenulum of male moths.
Harpago -ones: the inner basal lobes of the clasping organs of d culicids also, more generally = harpes.
Harpes: the lateral pieces of the male genitalia in Lepidoptera, used as clasping organs: also applied to the corneous hooks often borne by these lateral pieces, which are then termed valves; see clasper: in culicids an articulated process, sometimes jointed, at the base of inner side of side-piece, below and exterior to the harpagones.
Hastate: halbert-shaped: excavated at base and sides but with spreading lobes or angles.
Hastiform: = hastate.
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