proboscis
When proboscis is in stinging-sucking or just sucking insects , the suction pipe referred to which these animals can take their liquid food. However, the term is not precisely defined, often sucking mouthparts are also called licking-sucking (for taking in exposed liquid food) or piercing-sucking (for tapping and sucking up liquid food from plants or animals). Sometimes the proboscis also with the z. B. denotes the usual English term Proboscis .
The trunk usually consists of the lower jaw ( maxilla ) that has grown together with the labium and has changed .
Beetles are for their best chewing mouthparts known, but it is also in some types beetles ( Meloidae : Leptopalpus, Nemognatha , Cerylonidae : Cautomus ) with highly elongated maxilla, corresponding to a proboscis functional.
Examples
- Order of the Schnabelkerfe (Hemiptera)
- almost all kinds of the order of butterflies , see proboscis (butterfly)
- numerous species of the order of Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera), for example. B. bees
- numerous species of the order of Diptera (Diptera)
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Proboscis. In: Lexicon of Biology. Spektrum.de, accessed on November 12, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Werner Jacobs & Friedrich Seidel: Systematic Zoology: Insects . In: Dictionaries of Biology . 1975, ISBN 3-437-30195-0 , pp. 239-241 .
- ^ Gerhard Seifert: Entomological internship . 3. Edition. ISBN 3-13-455003-2 , pp. 224 .
- ↑ K. Günther, H.-J. Hannemann, E. Königsmann, H. Schumann: Insects . In: Urania animal kingdom . 1994, ISBN 3-332-00498-0 , pp. 241 .