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‖ tornus Entom. (ˈtɔːnəs) Pl. -i (-aɪ). [L. tornus turner's wheel or lathe, a. Gr. τόρνος a tool for rounding.] The inner or anal angle of the wing of an insect, esp. of the secondary wing of a tineid moth. Hence ˈtornal a., of or pertaining to the tornus.1897 Ld. Walsingham in Proc. Zool. Soc. 19 J...
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Tornus
Tornus may refer to:
Tornus (insect anatomy), an entomology term for the posterior corner of the wing
Tornus (gastropod), a gastropod genus in the family
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Tornus (gastropod)
Species
Species in the genus Tornus include:
Tornus aemilii Rolán & Rubio, 2002
Tornus africanus Adam & Knudsen, 1969
Tornus anselmoi Rolán & Rubio , 2002
†Tornus aquitanicus Lozouet, 1998
Tornus atomus (Morelet, 1882)
Tornus attenuatus Rolán & Rubio, 2002
Tornus aupouria (Powell, 1937)
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tornote
ˈtornote, n. (a.) Zool. [ad. Gr. τορνωτ-ός adj. rounded with the τόρνος (see tornus).] A form of sponge-spicule: see quot.1888 Sollas in Challenger Rep. XXV. p. lv, When the rhabdas is very abruptly pointed at each end a rhabdus amphitornota results, which we shall call a ‘tornote’.
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Linoclostis musicodes
The forewings are white with a fuscous line from two-thirds of the costa to the tornus, right angled in the middle, dark fuscous towards the extremities this and the termen is more or less tinged with fuscous and there is a dark fuscous line around the posterior sixth of the costa and termen to near the tornus
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Tanycyttara
costal streak from the base to the middle, its apex connected by an oblique streak with a dark fuscous V-shaped mark resting on the tornus. There is also a broad dark fuscous marginal line on the posterior one-fourth of the costa and tornus. The hindwings are pale grey.
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Polyptychus coryndoni
There is a blackish spot near the tornus and occasionally traces of basal spots. The hindwings are brick red, edged with black, except at the tornus which is grey.
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Scindalmota
mostly suffused with whitish-ochreous and with a large central brownish spot partly outlined by blackish scales, connected with the dorsum before the tornus , constricted towards the tornus.
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Temnora probata
It is very similar to Temnora burdoni, but the forewing apex and tornus and hindwing tornus are more pronounced and the middle of the forewing outer margin
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Lichenaula onychotypa
An ill-defined fascia is found from the midcosta to the tornus and there is an erect line from the tornus joining an elongate subapical costal spot, the posterior edge of which is again connected with the tornus.
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Malaveria nebulosa
The marginal band is dark brown and extends from the apex towards the tornus. The fringe is grayish brown. The marginal band is dark brown and extends from the apex towards the tornus.
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Euthalia telchinia
Hindwing broadly pear shaped, the costa, apex and termen roundly curved; tornus slightly produced; dorsum arched, slightly emarginate above tornus. Forewings and hindwings with a brilliant metallic blue terminal band, commencing just above the tornus on the forewing and gradually widening to the tornus
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Imma auxobathra
There is a curved series of about ten longitudinal marks from beneath the costa at two-thirds to above the tornus, in males reduced and ill defined. In males, the hindwings are dark fuscous, lighter on the discal and subdorsal streaks from the base, the tornus produced into a rounded prominence, above
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Dichomeris amphicosma
There is also a triangular blackish patch resting on the termen from the apex to the tornus, whitish edged except above, its angle touching the upper end The hindwings are grey, the tornus suffused with blackish- grey.
References
Moths described in 1930
amphicosma
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