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 A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
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
It may be distinguished by the fact that the middle joint of each palpus is of uniform size from end to end instead of tapering toward its outer end.
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
The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.
From Time Magazine Archive
The maxillary palpi are four-jointed, the labial palpi three-jointed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
These are the labial palpi or feelers of the lips.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
It is simply a pair of palpi unusually developed, which perhaps in an early stage of butterfly history served a useful purpose.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
It then turns into a pupa which bears some resemblance to the perfect insect, “except that the antennæ, palpi, wings, and legs are shorter, enclosed in separate sheaths, and arranged upon the breast.”
From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock
