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A pleural sclerite on the mesothorax of an insect, which is thought to be derived from the subcoxal elements of the ancestral legs, and is dissected by a suture from the other pleural sclerite, the mesepimeron.
From: mesepisternum in A Dictionary of Zoology »
Subjects: Zoology and Animal Sciences.
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