Abdomen: The third or posterior, major division of the insect body, consisting primitively of 11 segments, but normally with 9-10 (5 in Carpophilinae) apparent segments and bearing no functional legs in the adult stage
Antenna: in larval and adult insects, paired segmental appendages, borne one on each side of the head, functioning as sense organs
Axillary space: located posterior to the mesothoracic leg and roughly triangular in shape due to the broadening of the mesocoxal posterior rim laterally to its juncture with the metepisternum
Carina: an elevated ridge or keel, not necessarily high or acute
Coxa: the basal segment of the leg, by means of which it is articulated to the body
Disc: the central surface area of any part
Distal: near or toward the free end of any appendage, that part of a segment farthest from the body
Dorsal: on or of the functionally upper surface
Elytra: the leathery forewing of beetles, serving as a covering for the hind wings
Femur: the third, and usually the stoutest segment of the leg, articulated to the body through the trochanter and coxa and bearing the tibia at its distal end
Forecoxa: coxa of the foreleg
Interocular: between the compound eyes
Lateral: relating, pertaining, or attached, to the side
Mesosternum: sternum of the mesothorax
Mesothorax: the second or middle thoracic segment bearing the middle legs and the forewings
Metathorax: the third thoracic ring or segment, which bears the hind legs and hind wings
Pretarsus: last segment of the insect leg, being either a single claw segment or a pair of claws, arolium, auxillae, and unguitractor plate.
Pronotum: the upper and dorsal part of the prothorax
Prosternal process: a posterior prolongation of the prosternum behind the forecoxae
Prosternum: sternum of the prothorax
Prothorax: the first thoracic segment, bearing the anterior legs but no wings
Pygidium: the tergum of the last visible segment of the abdomen
Sclerite: any plate of the body wall bounded by membrane or sutures
Sternite: a subdivision of a sternum, or any one of the sclerotic components of a definite sternum
Supplementary segment (males only): an additional ventral structure which appears as a round or oval disc inserted into the apex of the 5th ventrite
Tarsus: the leg segment attached to the apex of the tibia, bearing the pretarsus and consisting of from 1-5 tarsomeres (5 tarsomeres in Carpophilinae)
Tarsomere: subdivision or article of the tarsus, usually numbering from 2-5
Tergum: the upper or dorsal surface of any body segment of an insect, the large sclerite on the dorsal surface of an abdominal segment
Tergite: a dorsal sclerite or part of a segment, especially when such consists of a single sclerite
Tibia: the fourth segment of the leg, between the femur and the tarsus
Trochanter: a small segment of the insect leg between the coxa and the femur
Ventral: pertaining to the under surface of the abdomen, pertaining to the underside of the body
Ventrite: a visible abdominal sternite