palpus
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Terminal joint of each palpus less than a third as long as the middle joint.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
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
Each short palpus has a large middle joint and a small joint at the tip.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
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
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
The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.
From Time Magazine Archive
The common name is due to these projecting palpi.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
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
This kind of pupa is called obtected. 2d, Brachocera, or those with short antennæ, not having more than three distinct joints, and palpi with one or two joints.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
Male of Ibla Cumingii; labrum and palpi, as seen with the eye on a level with the summit of the mouth.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
