insect thorax

The main middle section of the insect body comprising three thoracic rings: the pro-, the meso- and the metathoraces which are more or less well fused and cask-like sometimes having on the upper lateral part one of two pairs of wings, while on the ventrolateral part each thoracic ring bears a pair of legs.

Type Organ
Structure parente arthropod tagma

Sous-structures

insect adult thorax Organ insect embryonic thorax Organ insect larval thorax Organ

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What is the insect thorax?
The main middle section of the insect body comprising three thoracic rings: the pro-, the meso- and the metathoraces which are more or less well fused and cask-like sometimes having on the upper lateral part one of two pairs of wings, while on the ventrolateral part each thoracic ring bears a pair o

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Data sources: Terminologia Anatomica, Foundational Model of Anatomy, Wikidata.