The three many jointed anal stylets may, however, be directly compared with the similar appendages of Perla and Ephemera.
The maxillary palpi are greatly developed, but the chief characteristics are the two-jointed stylets arranged in nine pairs along each side of the abdomen, reminding us of the abdominal legs of Myriopods.
But the wings vary considerably in different families, and the most distinctive feature is the structure of the jaws, which form a beak-like organ with stylets adapted for piercing and sucking.
The point of the rostrum is pressed against the surface to be pierced; then the stylets come into play and the fluid food is believed to pass into the mouth by capillary attraction.
The mouth-parts of the mosquito are in the form of a long proboscis composed of six slender needle-like stylets lying in a tube narrowly open along its dorsal surface.
The tube is the labium, and the stylets are the two maxillae, two mandibles, and two other parts known as the epipharynx and the hypopharynx.
They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance.
Smaller appendages (such as the stylets of male cockroaches) may be carried on the ninth segment.
The appendages of the abdomen are called cerci, stylets and gonapophyses.
Whether cerci, stylets and gonapophyses are developed from these rudiments has been much debated.
At the tail end of the larval flea’s abdomen are two small projections called caudal stylets (Fig.
But caudal stylets are of small taxonomic importance.
As we have before said, it carries in front two stylets in the axis of the body, and on the right and left sides two other styletscurved at the end, which act like fins.
The middle stylets are pushed forward like the snout of the insectivore, and the two lateral stylets act like the limbs, taking hold of the tissues and forcing the head forwards.
The latter are the cutting or piercing stylets (fig.
B) on which the stylets work, tongues or rails on the "guide" fitting accurately into longitudinal grooves on the stylet.
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