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What is a proleg?

What is a proleg? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (entomology) An appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg.
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These claws, which sometimes amount to nearly a hundred on one proleg, are alternately longer and shorter.
At each time point 0-24 h post infection hemolymph was collected from 10 larvae bled through a punctured anterior proleg into ice cold phosphate buffered saline as described.
Each proleg has one or two curved rows of minute hooklets and an eversible soft end, the planta.
Body fluids forced into the proleg cause it to expand, extending the hooklets.
All trochanters had anteroventral series of natotory sensilla although this series was less developed on the proleg.

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