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Thanks for support Jorge. I think you meant to type 'and', not 'is', for '-que'. Pedibus is the ablative case - here indicating 'with' - of the plural of pes (= 'foot' in classical Latin but in the entomological context it refers to the whole leg).

The case-endings are important in understanding Latin: the 'ae' (dative case) at the end of ornatae is what tells us that this is not the subject of the last paragraph but the thing to which the subject is being compared.

Stephen.