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[R] One of a pair of often many-segmented appendages situated at the tip of the abdomen of many primitive insects (cockroaches, mantises, Dermaptera (*) , etc.); present in Orthoptera; particularly long in crickets and the (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa).
Campodeiform larvae of Coleoptera possess cerci.

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