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How to use apterous in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Four of five strains tested clearly showed staining specifically in the dorsal compartment of the wing disc, as expected for apterous expression.
Importantly, sexual selection favors apterous males in several natural populations of a water strider species.
Prey items were separated into morphotypes based on order, life stage, and in the case of Hymenoptera, apterous or winged.
The presence of a fundatrix, the numbers of soldiers, nonsoldier nymphs, apterous adults, and alates were recorded.
A survey conducted in 2005-2006 found the apterous form of this thrips infesting several types of ornamental bulbs around the country.
The ratio of alate to apterous adults indicated that relatively higher numbers of alates were found in the control areas.
However, females are not a problem, because they are apterous or micropterous in Embolemus and macropterous in Ampulicomorpha.
Examples from Classical Literature
It appears to be apterous, and is said in scent and colour to resemble the bed-bug.
Why it is, in the Insecta, that islands should predispose to an apterous state more than continents, it is not easy to speculate.
From this egg in the spring emerges an apterous female who makes a gall in the new leaf and lays therein a large number of eggs.
Fleas are apterous, walk but little, but leap to a height equal to two hundred times that of their own body.
Whereas the former is merely an apterous creeping grub, the latter is an insect provided with wings.
Those which resemble the perfect insect, except that they are apterous, or not yet furnished with organs of flight.
In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate, or have both sutures as it were soldered together.
Male and female larv similar, apterous, naked or covered, active.
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