palpi

Maxillæ, in Insects—the second or lower pair of jaws, which are composed of several joints and furnished with peculiar jointed appendages called palpi, or feelers.

Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909

-- - The second or lower pair of jaws, which are composed of several joints and furnished with peculiar jointed appendages called palpi, or feelers.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

Wings of a somewhat chalky white, the anterior with three rufous dots on the costa before the middle, of which the third is the largest, and near the apex a large brown spot, fulvous towards the costa, clouded with bluish white, connected with the inner margin by four indistinct yellow dots; forehead red; head, thorax, and abdomen, white; palpi red at the apex; feet white first and second pairs spotted with red.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

Between meals, the palpi are folded flat close to the mouth, like the blades of a pocket-knife.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The edge of a leaf is guided to the mouth, which appears to open vertically — not horizontally as mouths usually do — by a set of palpi or feelers, three on each side.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The palpi move the leaf along, the while a crescent-shaped strip is rapidly nibbled away.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Palpal: belonging, relating or attached to the palpi.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Maxillary palpi: the first pair of palpi, borne on the maxilla.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Isopalpi: that series of Trichoptera in which the palpi of both sexes have the same number of joints.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

Paraclypeal piece: in lepidopterous pupa, occurs in some of the generalized families on each side of the maxillary palpi.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith