circumfilum
English
Etymology
Equivalent to circum- + filum.
Noun
circumfilum (plural circumfila)
- (entomology) A thread-like sensory organ found on nodes of the antennae of some midges in family Cecidomyiidae.
- 1993 June, Raymond J. Gagné; Fred D. Bennett, “Two New Species of Lestodiplosini (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Preying on Homoptera and Thysanoptera in Southern Florida”, in The Florida Entomologist, volume 76, number 2, JSTOR 3495734, pages 341-348:
- That circumfilum is bandlike on the first five flagellomeres but absent beyond.