A zoological term for the body segments or soma of bee-like arthropods, particularly emphasizing their structure.
From Latin 'apis' (bee) combined with Greek 'soma' (body), literally meaning 'bee-body' or used in describing bee anatomical structures.
The remarkable segmentation of insect bodies—head, thorax, abdomen—is so efficient that insects have barely changed this basic architecture in 300 million years of evolution.
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