The propleuron is the lateral part of the prothorax, which is reduced in Diptera. In Tephritidae the propleuron is a small rectangular sclerite on the anterior end of the thorax, ventral to the postpronotal lobe and anterior to the anterior spiracle and the anepisternum.

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