palpus

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

Each short palpus has a large middle joint and a small joint at the tip.

From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed

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

Maxillary palpi moderately long and slender, nearly straight, gradually narrowed to the tip which ends opposite the knee-joint of the fore legs.

From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Charles P. Alexander

The mandibles have no palpi, the maxillipeds or foot-jaws are used as feet, whereas in the mature form they serve as jaws.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock

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

These are: 1st, Nemocera, or those with long antennæ, having more than six joints, and palpi having four or five joints.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley