fuscation

English

Etymology

From Latin fuscare, fuscatum (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).

Noun

fuscation

1. (entomology) A darkening; obscurity; obfuscation.
   • 1911, A. A. Girault, “Hymenoptera”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 37, page 51:

     It is true other species have some fuscation but with them it is slight, not noticeable casually, and has usually been omitted in descriptions.

   • 1915, Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volume 4, page 333:

     The same as victoria but the scape is also dark red, including also the long pedicel and the first two funicle joints (and a part of the third); the abdoment is reddish only along the median line of the venter; the fore wings bear the same general pattern ( as regards fuscation ) but they are more irregularly fumated, the two fumated areas less distinctly separated, especially caudad.

   • 1954, Richard H. Foote., The Larvae and Pupae of the Mosquitoes Belonging to the Culex Subgenera Melanoconion and Moschlostyrax, page 60::

     Air-tube index 6.5 to 7.0, without any fuscation near the center;