circumfilum

English

Etymology

Equivalent to circum- + filum.

Noun

circumfilum (plural circumfila)

1. (entomology) A thread-like sensory organ found on nodes of the antennae of some midges in family Cecidomyiidae.
   • 1993 June, Raymond J. Gagné, Fred D. Bennett, “Two New Species of Lestodiplosini (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Preying on Homoptera and Thysanoptera in Southern Florida”, in The Florida Entomologist, volume 76, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 341–348:

     That circumfilum is bandlike on the first five flagellomeres but absent beyond.