palpus
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The labium in Japyx is four-lobed and bears a small two-jointed palpus.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Palpifer: any palpus-bearing part: specifically, a small sclerite hearing the maxillary palpus and itself articulated to the stipes.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The palpus, too, on this side was turned back to correspond to the direction of the legs nearest it.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
Terminal joint of each palpus less than a third as long as the middle joint.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wings diluted yellow or fulvous; anterior with a black border and central dot, which beneath is ferrugineous; posterior beneath, each with two unequal snowy spots; palpi lengthened.—Female.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William
The rudimentary condition of the palpi is connected, as remarked under the Anelasma squalicola, with the absence of efficient cirri.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
It has a strange appearance due to the angular outline of both front and hind wings and the long palpi which project forward from the head in a way to attract attention.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Weed, Clarence M.
Mouth.—Labrum with the upper part highly bullate, and produced into a large overhanging projection; crest with a row of rather large bead-like teeth; palpi small, their two sides parallel, very sparingly covered with long bristles.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
