noun
definition
The ventral plate of each segment of an arthropod.
Examples of sternite in a Sentence
The glands occur in groups, and lead into common ducts which open usually so much reduced that the foremost apparent ventral sclerite of the abdomen represents the third sternite.
Verhoeff (1894-1896) - in a beetle's abdomen, but the tenth sternite is usually absent.
On account of the great extension of the metathorax and the haunches of the large hindlegs, the first abdominal sternite is wanting, and the second is - the stylets.
The vagina usually opens in front of the eighth abdominal sternite.
These elements are a central piece or sternite, 12 and a lateral field on each side bearing the leg-rudi 1s ment.
They do not long persist in the embryo, but disappear, and the area each one occupied becomes part of the sternite.
In front of it the narrow waist is formed by the soft sternal area of the praegenital somite; 2, the sternite of the 2 second opisthosomatic somite covering the posterior pair of lung-sacs; and 4, the spinning appendages (limbs) of the opisthosoma; a, inner, b, outer ramus of the appendage; I I, sternite of the eleventh --
I, Sternite of the genital or first opisthosomatic somite; the prae-genital somite, though represented by a tergum, has no separate sternal plate.