Tergites is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 202 anagrams from letters in tergites (eegirstt).
First recorded in 1880-85; terg(um) + -ite1
A pair of dorso-ventral muscles passing from tergite to sternite in each segment.
Propygidium: the dorsal segment or tergite in front of the pygidilini, sometimes left exposed in Coleoptera.
Thorax much shorter than the head and than the first tergite.
A series of paired longitudinal dorsal muscles passing from tergite to tergite of each successive segment.
The tergite which covers the dorsal part of the first abdominal segment nearest to the thorax is, however, always present.