Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a brush of stiff hairs on the lower part of the face, immediately over the mouth-cavity; it is conspicuous in certain Diptera, especially of the family Asilidæ.
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Examples
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The Amazon River is a barrier to a number of animals such as the tamarins Saguinus nigricollis, which occur on the north side, and Saguinus mystax, which occurs on the southwest side of the Amazon-Ucayali system.
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It contains monk saki Pithecia albicans, endemic bearded emperor tamarin Saguinus imperator, mustached tamarin S. mystax, night monkey Aotus nancymaae, titi monkey Callicebus dubius, all of which have narrow distribution.
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_ Head slightly gilded; mystax with a few black bristles and many gilded bristles; beard testaceous-whitish; sides of the abdomen and hind borders of the segments lutescent.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head brightly gilded, hind part silvery, underside with white hairs; mystax with six long black bristles; pectus with silvery tomentum; abdomen greenish blue, with spots of silvery tomentum along each side; hind borders of the ventral segments white; wings slightly grey, blackish for full half the length from the tips and along full three-fourths of the length of the hind border, veins black; halteres ferruginous, with black tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head brightly gilded, hind part silvery; mystax with six long black bristles; third joint of the antennæ elongate-fusiform; pectus with silvery tomentum; abdomen green in the male, purplish-blue in the female, with silvery spots along each side, underside with two silvery stripes; wings blackish, grey at the base and along the costa for more than one-third of the length, veins and halteres black.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_ Head and pectus with white tomentum and hairs; mystax with a few black bristles; mouth and antennæ black; third joint of the latter linear, conical at the tip, longer than the first and the second together; thorax with cupreous-gilded tomentum; abdomen purple, green at the base, blue and with a row of white dots along each side; legs blue; wings brown, cinereous towards the base, veins black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head with whitish slightly silvery tomentum; mystax with very few bristles; antennæ black, third joint long, linear, conical at the tip; thorax with a very indistinct darker stripe; abdomen black towards the tip; wings blackish, limpid towards the base; veins black, testaceous at the base; halteres whitish.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head white, face brilliant silvery; mystax with four bristles; mouth black, short, slender; eyes flat in front; antennæ black, almost as long as the breadth of the head; third joint long, slender, lanceolate; thorax deep black; scutellum reddish tawny; hind tibiæ black, with tawny tips; wings greyish, veins black; discal veinlet and third externo-medial vein forming one straight line, as in the genus
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head gilded; mystax with a few black and several gilded bristles; sutures of the thorax, scutellum, sides, pectus, hind borders of the abdominal segments, and underside hoary; tibiæ tawny, with black tips; wings cinereous, blackish along the costa and towards the tips, veins black; halteres ferruginous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head silvery in front; mystax with a few black and
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
missanthropist commented on the word mystax
Greek Moustache.
July 10, 2008