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In the fruit fly they are located on the antennae and the maxillary palp, an appendage near the fly mouth.
In successful matings, the time of the first palpal insertion and which palp was inserted were noted.
The mandibular palp is very large, flattened, and has pappose setae along the rim.
This suggests that insertion of the second palp was enough to trigger death, even in the absence of a genuine female orb-weaver.
In the case of the orb-weaver, however, the male actively terminates himself within minutes of inserting his second palp.
In the adult the mandible loses one of the branches, sometimes retaining the other as a palp, and the base can develop into a powerful jaw.
Behind the mandibles, Mandibulata bear one, or more typically, two pairs of maxillae, frequently with a long palp, as in the second maxilla of Macrocyclops.
To prevent others from copulating with a former love, males will break off a palp after copulation and permanently seal the female's genital orifice.
As they explain in a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, other males may fight over access to the female and try to dislodge any male that has an inserted palp.
These are followed by a pair of structures called first maxillae, each consisting of a bladelike lacinia, a hoodlike galea, and a segmented palp bearing sense organ.
Next is a pair of small first maxillae, each with a segmented palp.
Microelectrode investigations suggest that just three receptor cells located in the third antennal segment and probably not more than one receptor cell in the maxillary palp are sensitive to cooling.
With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows.
The male tibial retrolateral apophysis is used as a lock mechanism to anchor the male palp onto the epigynum and prevents its rotation.
The researchers found that removing one palp reduced the spider's body weight by y per cent, and removing both reduced it to nine per cent.
Nuculoma tennis, a detritus feeder, develops its palp proboscides, its feeding apparatus, during the prolonged phase of meiobenthic development.
Structure of caudal rami, A2, mandibular palp, P 1 and P2 like that of female.
In another trial, a shrew attacked the spider by first seizing the left palp in its jaws and twisting vigorously until the palp became detached.
It is widely accepted that the male palp fits specifically into the female epigynum of conspecifics.
He tested the blade against the palp of his thumb, then returned to the living room and decisively, scrape by scrape, cut away the hex sign, leaving a halo of ragged wood.
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The third one was alive, as was shown by a rhythmic movement of the palp on the right side.
Projecting from each side of the head of a butterfly is a fluffy structure, the palp.
Before the close of the zoa condition a small and unjointed palp appears on the mandible.
As an instance of this may be mentioned the mandibular palp of those Crustacea with zoaea larvae.
In bugs and aphids the lacinia is a slender needle-like piercer, while the palp is wanting.
A palp sprouts on the mandible and the median eye disappears.
First maxill two-jointed, palp and second joint armed with spines.
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