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mx id: 1110 | OBO id: HAO:0000391 | URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0000391

gula

Definition:

A median ventral plate of the head in some prognathous insects formed by a sclerotization of the neck region proximal to the posterior tentorial pits, continuous with the postmentum or submentum.

written by: Snodgrass, R. E. 1935. Principles of insect morphology. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York & London 667 pp.

Relationships / properties:

The gula is a sclerite.

The gula is part of the cuticle.

gula by Snodgrass, R. E. 1935. Principles of insect morphology. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York & London 667 pp.

comment added about 14 years ago by Matt Yoder

The gula is absent from Hymenoptera. The sclerotised area between the oral and occipital foramina might either postgenal (postgenal bridge) or hypostomal (hypostomal bridge) in origin. See more detailes in Vilhelmsen, L. B. 1999. The occipital region in the basal Hymenoptera (Insecta): a reappraisal. Zoologica Scripta 28:75-85.

Reference: Miko, I. 2009. -2019 Curator. Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology.
Cross reference: None provided.

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