raster

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raster (noun; plural rastri; Latin rastrum, rake): (Arthropoda: Insecta) A complex of bare areas, hairs and spines on the ventral surface of the last abdominal segment, in front of the anus in Scarabaeoidea; comprised of septula, palidium, teges, tegillum in some groups, and campus in Coleoptera.