Heterogamy: applied to those cases in which two sexual or a sexual and parthenogenetic generation alternate.
Heterogeneous: a mixture of different forms; abnormal.
Heterogeny: the alternation of sexual and parthenogenetic generations.
Heterogyna: the ants: referring to the different kinds of females, - queens and workers, - as distinguished from males.
Heteromera: Coleopteran in which the anterior and middle tarsi are 5-jointed and the posterior are 4-jointed.
Heteromerous: having an unequal number of tarsal joints on the feet.
Heterometabola: differing among themselves in metamorphosis; but not manifesting abrupt stages.
Heteromorphous: the metamorphosis complete, in abrupt stages, the larva unlike the adult.
Heteronomous: if two parts, compared with each other, are of different quality: differing in development or function.
Heteropalpi: palpi with a different number of joints in male and female, as in some Trichoptera.
Heteroptera: an ordinal term applied to that series of Hemiptera in which the anterior wings differ in texture from the posterior, and the different regions of primaries differ in texture.
Heteropterous: with wings of different texture in different parts.
Heterotypical: a genus, described from more than one species, these differing in structure,
Hexachaetous: Diptera in which the mouth structures have six piercing setae.
Hexanephric: with six kidneys, or structures serving as such.
Hexapoda: tracheate arthropods with head, thorax and abdomen distinct, and only six legs in the adult stage: the true insects.
Hexapodal -ous: provided with six feet.
Hians: gaping.
Hibernaculum: a tent or sheath made out of a leaf or other material in which a larva hides or hibernates.
Hibernate: to pass the winter in a dormant condition.
Hicks' bottles: {Scanner's comment: sic} flask-shaped pits or depressions in the antennae of bees and ants: supposed to be the organs of hearing.
Hind angle: in primaries of Lepidoptera, is that point where inner and outer margin meet: = anal angle of secondaries.
Hind-body: the abdomen.
Hind-gut: the intestinal canal from the end of chylific ventricle to the Anus, including the malpighian tubules and anal glands.
Hind-head: Mallophaga; that part of head behind mandibles and antennae.
Hind-intestine: = hind-gut.
Hinge: of maxilla = cardo; q.v.: the point of articulation of a movable joint.
Hips: the coxa; q.v.
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