A Text-book of Entomology: Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and Metamorphoses of Insects for Use in Agricultural and Technical Schools and Colleges as Well as by the Working EntomologistPackard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
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A Text-book of Entomology: Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and Metamorphoses of Insects for Use in Agricultural and Technical Schools and Colleges as Well as by the Working Entomologist
Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Insects
FIG. 51.—Mandible of _Eriocephala calthella_: _a_, _a′_, inner and
outer articulation; _s_, cavity of the joint (acetabulum); _A_, end
seen from one side of the cutting edge.—After Walter.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 52.—_A_, Pupa of _Phryganea pilosa_.—After Pictet. _B_, mandibles
of pupa of _Molanna angustata_.—After Sharp.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 53.—Pupa of _Micropteryx purpuriella_, front view: _md_,
mandibles; _mx.p_, maxillary palpus, end drawn separately; _mx.’p_,
labial palpi; _lb_, labrum; _A_, another view from a cast skin.
]
The three distal divisions of the maxilla are called, respectively,
beginning with the innermost, the _lacinia_, _galea_, and _palpifer_,
the latter being a lobe or segment bearing the _palpus_. The lacinia is
more or less jaw-like and armed on the inner edge with either flexible
or stiff bristles, spines, or teeth, which are very variable in shape
and are of use as stiff brushes in pollen-eating beetles, etc. The galea
is either single-jointed and helmet-shaped or subspatulate, as in most
Orthoptera, or 2–jointed in Gryllotalpa, or lacinia-like in Myrmeleon
(Fig. 55, _C_); or, in the Carabidæ (Fig. 56) and Cicindelidæ, it is
2–jointed and in form and function like a palpus.
[Illustration:
FIG. 54.—_A_, maxilla of _Termopsis angusticollis_. _B_, _Termes
flavipes_: _c_, cardo; _sti_, stipes; _plpgr_, palpiger; _palp_,
palpus; _lac_, lacinia; _g_, _gal_, galea.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 55.—_A_, maxilla of _Mantispa brunnea_. _B_, _Ascalaphus
longicornis_. _C_, _Myrmeleon diversum_. Lettering as in Fig. 54.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 56.—Maxilla of a carabid, _Anophthalmus tellkampfii_: _l_,
lacinia; _g_, 2–jointed galea; _p_, palpus; _st_, stipes; _c_,
cardo.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 57.—Maxilla of _Nemognatha_, ♀, from Montana. _A_, base of
maxilla enlarged to show the taste-papillæ (_tp_) and cups (_tc_),
on the galea (_ga_). _B_, part of end of galea to show the imperfect
segments and taste-organs: _n_, nerve; a ganglionated nerve supplies
each taste-papilla or cup; _l_, lacinia; _p_, palpifer; _s_,
subgalea.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 58.—Maxilla of Panorpa.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 59.—Maxilla of _Limnephilus pudicus_: _mx_, stipes; _lac_, galea.
]
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