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scop·u·la

(skŏp′yə-lə)

n. pl. scop·u·lae (-lē′)

1. A dense brushlike tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders and insects.

2. A ciliated structure by which certain protozoans attach to a surface.

[Latin scōpula, small brush of twigs, diminutive of scōpae, branches, broom.]

scop′u·late′ (-lāt′) adj.

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scopula

(ˈskɒpjʊlə)

n, pl -las or -lae (-ˌliː)

(Zoology) a small tuft of dense hairs on the legs and chelicerae of some spiders

[C19: from Late Latin: a broom-twig, from scōpa thin twigs]

scopulate adj

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Scopulae of metatarsi and tarsi I-III undivided; scopulae of metatarsi and tarsi IV divided by rows of setae in male.

Revision of the theraphosid spiders from China (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)

Vellard originally placed the genus in Barychelidae, probably due to the wide labium with few cuspules, absence of tibial apophysis, short apical segment of the posterior lateral spinnerets and well developed leg scopulae, mainly on tarsi I and II, resembling claw tufts.

On the genus Neostothis Vellard (Araneae, Nemesiidae)

Scopulae on tarsus and metatarsus I-II present, only slightly developed.

Notes on the distribution of Berlandina nubivaga with the description of the male (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)

Endites slightly convergent, longer than wide with a dense scopulae in internal margin.

Revision of the neotropical spider genus Macrinus (Araneae, Sparassidae)

Heavy scopulae on tarsus and metatarsus of leg I and II, dark gray in color.

Sosippus revisited: review of a web-building wolf spider genus from the Americas (Araneae, Lycosidae)

Legs: Leg formula IV > I > II > III; coloration as male; all tarsi and metatarsi I and II (only in apical half) with dense scopulae; spination of leg I (based on paratype SAM NN14032): Femur: 6 dorsal, 2 apicoprolateral; tibia: 3 ventral pairs, 1 (small) prolateral; metatarsus: 2 ventral pairs, 1 apicoventral, 1 apicoprolateral, 1 apicoretrolateral, 1 (small) prolateral.

The wolf spiders of artesian springs in arid South Australia, with a revalidation of Tetralycosa (Araneae, Lycosidae)

Females with dense scopulae on the tarsi of all legs, metatarsi I-III and the apical two thirds of tibiae I+II.

Mainosa, a new genus for the Australian 'shuttlecock wolf spider' (Araneae, Lycosidae)

Juvenile Theraphosinae Thorell 1870 have divided tarsal scopulae that become entire in the adult stage, in Ischnocolinae the scopulae remain divided into adulthood (Pocock 1897; Gerschman de Pikelin & Schiapelli 1973; Perez-Miles 1994).

Tarsal scopula significance in Ischnocolinae phylogenetics (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae)

The extent of tarsal and metatarsal scopulae on ventral side of both leg segments was expressed as a percentage of the total length of segment, from apical end.

Descripcion del macho de Bistriopelma matuskai Kaderka 2015 y de una nueva especie de Bistriopelma de Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)

Their movements are erratic, and with their claw tufts and scopulae they are able to move around swiftly on the substrate.

First report of clinical presentation of a bite by a running spider, Philodromus sp

Maxillae yellowish brown with dense black scopulae, distinctly longer than wide, medially constricted outer lateral margin without setae, somewhat narrow basally, broad apically.