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Near the root or base of the mandibles on each side is a jointed feeler, or palpus; but spiders have no antenn.
AN ELEMENTARY TEXT-BOOK OF THE MICROSCOPEJOHN WILLIAM GRIFFITHThe labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus.
OUR COMMON INSECTSALPHEUS SPRING PACKARDThe palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.
STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX, VOLUME 3 (OF 6)HAVELOCK ELLISIts true function appears to be that of an extra palpus or "feeler."
APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, MARCH 1899VARIOUSThe palpus of the male (fig. 339) has large and complicated appendages at the end.
THE COMMON SPIDERS OF THE UNITED STATESJAMES HENRY EMERTONThe mouth-parts in this genus are much as in Tomocerus, the maxillæ ending in a lacinia and palpus.
OUR COMMON INSECTSALPHEUS SPRING PACKARDWhen you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
CHILDREN'S LITERATURECHARLES MADISON CURRYThe tarsus of the male palpus (fig. 356) is short and truncated, with its tube twisted in a circle around the end.
THE COMMON SPIDERS OF THE UNITED STATESJAMES HENRY EMERTONIn x-notata (fig. 435) the palpus is as long as the cephalothorax, and the tarsus and palpal organ small and round.
THE COMMON SPIDERS OF THE UNITED STATESJAMES HENRY EMERTONIn montana (fig. 435a) the palpus is still shorter, the tibia thicker, and the tarsus and palpal organ larger.
THE COMMON SPIDERS OF THE UNITED STATESJAMES HENRY EMERTONWORDS RELATED TO PALPUS
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