Greek = suspender, hence the muscle which suspends the testis.
a muscle that forms a thin network of fascicles around the spermatic cord and testis and elevates the testis (and which retracts them in cold or fear)
The end of a butterfly's abdomen containing small hooks used to attach and suspend from a silk pad.
The hooks at the end of the chrysalis.
Most butterfly pupae are attached to a surface by a Velcro-like arrangement of a silken pad spun by the caterpillar and a set of hooks (cremaster) at the tip of the pupal abdomen.
One or more hooks at the tip of the abdomen of a pupa that hook into a pad of silk laid on some supporting object.
A structure, much like a hook, on the rear of a chyrsalis, which helps to secure the chrysalis to a leaf, twig, etc.
the little, black post which has many tiny velcro-like hooks on it with which the chrysalis grasps the silk pad during the larval to chrysalis metamorphosis.
Hook-bearing structure which attaches the pupa to a twig when becoming a chrysalis
(G. kremaster, a suspender). Musculus cremaster, the muscle by which the testicles are suspended.
Is a small piece of silk that the larva uses to hang itself in pre-pupating and throughout the pupa stage. With this silk and small hooks used to attach the last pseudo-legs to to branch or plant, the larva begins the process of transformation into the adult.
Hooks on the pupa for attaching to silk pads.
The hook-like process on the end of a chrysalis that attaches the pupa to the stem, twig, etc.
A cremaster is a support hook (or a cluster of small hooks) at the abdominal (hind) end of a pupa.