FLAGELLOMERE

A segment of a flagellum which is part of the ramus of antenna 1 or antenna 2 of many crustaceans. Flagellomeres are not moved by muscles and are formed distad to the first flagellomere, which is the source segment for the flagellomeres. Copepods do not have a flagellum on either antenna 1 or antenna 2 [Ferrari and Dahms, in press].

n. [L. flagellum, whip; Gr. meros, part]

(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)

In Diptera, an individual subdivision or unit of the antennal flagellum; in mosquitoes 13-14 flagellomeres.