... to the surface plane of the wing, especially near the The thorax 41 TIC02 5/20/ 04 4 :49 PM Page 41 The cuticle 25In soft-bodied larvae and in the membranes betweensegments, the cuticle must be ... Branches of the anterior and posterior sector of each vein are numbered, e.g. CuA1 4 .(After CSIRO 1991.)TIC02 5/20/ 04 4 :49 PM Page 43 44 External anatomythickened, leathery fore wings of Blattodea, ... 1981.)TIC02 5/20/ 04 4 :49 PM Page 44 Ephemeroptera and Odonata. Primitively, two furthersegments lie proximal to the coxa and in extant insects one of these, the epicoxa, is associated with the wingarticulation,...