The mesosoma is the middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma...

and spurs. The mesosoma or preabdomen is the broad part of the opisthosoma. In the early stages of embryonic development the mesosoma consist of eight...

head, mesosoma, and metasoma are the three distinct body segments (formally tagmata). The petiole forms a narrow waist between their mesosoma (thorax...

The mesosoma is high, short, and heavily sclerotized, with a ridged and pitted surface. The head is largely immovable and attaches to the mesosoma on a...

body is very compact, and its length can range from 0.16 to 0.3 mm. The mesosoma is rather high and is mostly shorter than the metasoma, and the prothorax...

propodeum make up the mesosoma. The antennae are straight and consist of two or three segments. In many varieties, the backside of the mesosoma appears longitudinally...

exoskeleton which protects their three main body parts, the head, the mesosoma (including the thorax and the first segment of the abdomen) and the metasoma...

is covered by a carapace (a large plate). The prosoma is followed by a mesosoma (the broad portion of the abdomen-like opisthosoma), which has seven segments...

the males of some species, their internal margin is almost straight. The mesosoma (composed of three thoracic segments plus the first abdominal segment,...

border by a distance of at least the antennal scape's maximum diameter. The mesosoma in profile usually forms a continuous curve from the pronotum through to...