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cercus

pincer-like appendage on insects
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cercus

Summary

cercus is an insect anatomy[1]. cercus draws 112 Wikipedia views per month (insect_anatomy category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • cercus's image is recorded as Cloeon dipterum agg. female imago Bytom.jpg[3].
  • cercus's instance of is recorded as insect anatomy[4].
  • cercus's subclass of is recorded as appendage[5].
  • cercus's Commons category is recorded as Cerci[6].
  • cercus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03ml73[7].
  • cercus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cerci[8].
  • cercus's main subject is recorded as insect anatomy[9].
  • cercus's Commons gallery is recorded as Cerci[10].
  • cercus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • cercus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/cercus[12].
  • cercus's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777426731[13].

Why It Matters

cercus draws 112 Wikipedia views per month (insect_anatomy category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] cercus has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] cercus is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cercus_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cercus}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cercus}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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