labium
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Elinguata: without a tongue: forms in which the maxillae are connate with the labium: see synista.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The labium is not developed from a pair of tubercles, as is usual, but at once appears as an unpaired, or single organ.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Palp, palp, n. a jointed sensiferous organ attached in pairs to the labium or maxilla of insects, and thus distinguished from antenn�, which are on the top of the head—also Pal′pus:—pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Thus massed into a single awl-like beak, the mosquito, without any apparent effort, thrusts them all except the labium into the flesh.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Breast-bone: in Cecidomyid larvae; a horny, more or less elongate process of the under side behind the mouth opening, supposed to represent the labium = anchor process.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
