NOUN
- primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones
How To Use plecopteran In A Sentence
- Both the lepidopteran and the trichopteran branches are relatively long and share a common node, a different situation from the plecopteran and the collembolan branches.
- In many of the bootstrap analyses, node A is disrupted because the long plecopteran branch joins with the long collembolan branch, and this attraction is reduced under the more complex models.
- The plecopteran fauna was studied by means of slit traps and hand net during the summers of 1982-1987.
- Most plecopteran larvae use gills to respire, but those that don't have gills need to live in highly oxygenated water in order to be able to diffuse enough oxygen across their body surface. Insecta (Aquatic)
- The taxonomic diversity of the IKIP plecopteran specimens identified to date consists of 21 species belonging to 15 genera in 6 families.
- Both the lepidopteran and the trichopteran branches are relatively long and share a common node, a different situation from the plecopteran and the collembolan branches.
