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. 75.—Head of _Anabolia furcata_: _A_, front view, showing the
labrum removed. _B_, side view; _ant_, antenna; _oc_, ocellus; _ol_,
labrum; _gh_, articulatory process; _cmx__{1}, cardo; _stmx__{1},
stipes; _lemx__{1}, outer lobe (galea); _ptmx__{1}, palpus of 1st
maxilla; _pl_, palpus of 2d maxilla; _ha_, haustellum; _so_,
gustatory pits; _spr_, opening of salivary duct; _chsp_, chitinous
hook of the clasp; _spr_, furrow or gutter of the haustellum.—After
Lucas.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 76.—Hypopharynx of _Eriocephala calthella_: _lig_, ligula, its
membranous hinder edge; _lig′_, anterior horny edge of the
ligula-tube opening outwards; _hp_, contour of the hypopharynx;
_mi_, mala interior (lacinia); _me_, mala exterior (galea), of
second maxilla; _mx′ p_, labial palpus.—After Walter.
]
The spinneret of the larvæ of Lepidoptera is evidently the homologue of
the hypopharynx of insects of other orders. It will be seen that the
homology of the different parts is identical, the common duct of the
silk-glands opening at the end of the hypopharynx, which here forms a
complete tube or proboscis extending beyond the end of the labium, in
adaptation to its use as a spinning organ.
Walter refers to Burgess’s discovery of a hypopharynx in _Danais
archippus_, remarking that this organ in the adult Eriocephalidæ (Fig.
76) exhibits a great similarity to the relations observable in the lower
insects, adding:—
[Illustration:
FIG. 77.— Labium of _Micropteryx anderschella_ seen from within (the
labial palpi (_mx.′ p_) removed to their basal joint). Lettering as
in Fig. 76.—After Walter.
]
“The furrow is here within coalesced with the inner side of the labium,
and though I see in the entire structure of the head the inner edge of
the ligula tube extended under the epipharynx as far as the mandible, I
must also accept the fact that here also the hypopharynx extends to the
mouth-opening as in all other sucking insects with a well-developed
under-lip, viz. the Diptera and Hymenoptera.”
He has also discovered in Micropteryx a paired structure which he
regards as the hypopharynx (Fig. 77). As he states:
[Illustration:
FIG. 78.—Hypopharynx (_hph_) of Danais: _cl_, clypeus; _sd_, salivary
duct; _m_, labial palp muscles; _fm_, frontal muscle; _ph_, pharynx;
_cor_, cornea.—After Burgess.
]
“A portion of the inner surface of the tube-like ligula is covered by a
furrow-like band which, close to the inner side, is coalesced with it,
and in position, shape, as well as its appendages or teeth on the edge,
may be regarded as nothing else than the hypopharynx.”
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