modes of feeding. The earliest insects had chewing mouthparts. Most specialisation of mouthparts are for piercing and sucking, and this mode of feeding...
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and move vertically. The mouthparts of orthopteran insects are often used as a basic example of mandibulate (chewing) mouthparts, and the mandibles themselves...
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and mouthparts located outside of the head capsule. This position of the mouthparts divides them from their closest relatives, the non-insect hexapods...
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The mouthparts of arthropods have evolved into a number of forms, each adapted to a different style or mode of feeding. Most mouthparts represent modified...
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of mouthparts are among the most common in insects, which are used for biting and grinding solid foods. Piercing-sucking: These forms of mouthparts have...
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Convergent evolution (section Insect mouthparts)
flight and feeding patterns. Insect mouthparts show many examples of convergent evolution. The mouthparts of different insect groups consist of a set of...
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via receptors, usually on the antennae and the mouthparts. Nearly all insects hatch from eggs. Insect growth is constrained by the inelastic exoskeleton...
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Mouthparts may refer to: The parts of a mouth Arthropod mouthparts Insect mouthparts This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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Many different species of insects have mouthparts derived from the same embryonic structures, indicating that the mouthparts are modifications of a common...
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Micropterigidae, have mouth parts of the chewing kind. The study of insect mouthparts was helpful for the understanding of the functional mechanism of the...
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Eusociality (redirect from Eusocial insect)
than sexually mature reproductives. One difference is that a soldier's mouthparts (pharynx) is five times as big as those of the reproductives. They make...
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Mosquito (redirect from Nipper (insect))
mosquito mouthparts, with grasshopper mouthparts (shown both in situ and separately) representing a more primitive condition. All the mouthparts except...
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Rhyniognatha (category Prehistoric insect genera)
as the oldest insect known, as well as possibly being a flying insect. Rhyniognatha is known from a partial head with preserved mouthparts from the Early...
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Cockroach (redirect from Roach (insect))
generalized insects lacking special adaptations (such as the sucking mouthparts of aphids and other true bugs); they have chewing mouthparts and are probably...
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Mandible (arthropod mouthpart), one of several mouthparts in arthropods Mandible (insect mouthpart), one of several mouthparts in insects Human mandible,...
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Fly (redirect from Fly (Insect))
bears the eyes, the antennae, and the mouthparts (the labrum, labium, mandible, and maxilla make up the mouthparts). The second tagma, the thorax, bears...
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Phasmatodea (redirect from Stick insect)
as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or...
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reveal the form and functional mechanism of insect mouthparts relationships. The study of insect mouthparts was helpful for the understanding of the functional...
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the labrum derives from paired appendages. Arthropod head problem Insect mouthparts Haas, M. S.; Brown, S. J.; Beeman, R. W. (2001). "Pondering the Procephalon:...
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segments with compound eyes, ocelli, antennae and mouthparts, which differ according to the insect's particular diet, e.g. grinding, sucking, lapping and...
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Larva (redirect from Insect larvae)
lepidopterans. Oligopod larvae – have well developed head capsule and mouthparts are similar to the adult, but without compound eyes. They have six legs...
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Tabanidae (category Insects in culture)
horse-flies feed on nectar and plant exudates; males have weak mouthparts, but females have mouthparts strong enough to bite large animals. This is for the purpose...
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Gall (section Physiology of insect-induced galls)
primary categories of galls: closed and open. Insects such as wasps, moths, and flies, possessing chewing mouthparts during their adult or larval stages, typically...
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sometimes wings, and resemble small flies. Scale insects are herbivores, piercing plant tissues with their mouthparts and remaining in one place, feeding on sap...
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Jurassic (section Insects and arachnids)
increasing diversity of insects in the Middle–Late Jurassic corresponds with a substantial increase in the diversity of insect mouthparts. The Middle to Late...
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Neuroptera (redirect from Net-winged insect)
soft-bodied insects with relatively few specialized features. They have large lateral compound eyes, and may or may not also have ocelli. Their mouthparts have...
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Plant virus (section By insects)
in insect-mediated viral transmission. The helper component will bind to the specific domain of the coat protein, and then the insect mouthparts – creating...
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Bacillus rossius (redirect from European stick insect)
rossius) Eating a leaf of Rubus ulmifolius (mouthparts also visible) Adult and nymph Female stick insect Female (head's detail) A stick bug Bacillus atticus...
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Zoraptera (redirect from Angel insect)
in appearance. They belong to the hemimetabolous insects. They possess mandibulated biting mouthparts, short cerci (usually 1 segment only), and short...
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Aphid (category Insect pests of temperate forests)
sucking mouthparts called stylets, enclosed in a sheath called a rostrum, which is formed from modifications of the mandible and maxilla of the insect mouthparts...
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