Flared iliac wings and shallow acetabulae are present along with coxa valga and flaring of the femoral metaphyses. |
These are the trochanter, which acts as a swivel joint for the leg, and the coxa, which anchors the leg to the body. |
In one of the legs determine the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsal segments. |
The one next the body we will mark I, and we will call it the coxa. |
A cockroach leg is made up of a number of distinct segments, arranged along the proximo-distal axis in the order coxa, femur, tibia, tarsus. |
In entomostracan crustaceans, the occurrence of a coxa is restricted to exactly those appendages, the antenna and mandible. |