Postscutellum

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Postscutellum \Post`scu*tel"lum\, n. [NL. See {Post-}, and
     {Scutellum}.] (Zool.)
     The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an
     insect; the plate behind the scutellum.
     [1913 Webster]