palpus

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 John. B. Smith

Terminal joint of each palpus less than a third as long as the middle joint.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

Palpiger: that sclerite of the labium to which the labial palpus is attached corresponds to the palpifer of the maxilla and has been used in the same general sense.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

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 Havelock Ellis

When you touch him, he draws up slowly one leg after another, or moves a palpus feebly.

From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg

The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.

From Time Magazine Archive

The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders. µ They have mandibles, modified a poison fa?gs, leglike palpi, simple eyes, abdomen without segments, and spinnerets for spinning a web.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Male: Cephalothorax, palpi, sternum, and most of legs yellowish; abdomen dark brown; metatarsi dark, tibiæ infuscated; mandibles reddish brown; tips of male palpi dark.

From New West Indian Spiders Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXIII, Art. XLI, pp. 639-642 by Nathan Banks

The palpi are jointed—usually in three parts—are covered with scales, and often furnished with hairs or bristles.

From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux

The best-known family is the Hydrophilidae, in which the feelers are short with less than eleven segments and the maxillary palpi very long.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various