haustellate
AmericanEtymology
Origin of haustellate
First recorded in 1825–35; haustell(um) + -ate 1
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The older entomologists divided insects into haustellate or suctorial, and mandibulate or biting insects, the butterfly being an example of one, and the beetle serving to illustrate the other category.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Another puzzle for the evolutionist to solve is how to account for the change from the caterpillar with its powerful jaws, to the butterfly with its sucking or haustellate mouth-parts.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Instrumenta suctoria: mouth parts of a haustellate insect as a whole.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Paleolepidoptera: haustellate Lepidoptera in which the mandibles are distinct and the pupa is free: includes the Micropterygidae only: see protolepidoptera and neolepidoptera.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
We have all no doubt read those ingenious, not to say amusing, speculations in which some entomologists and botanists have indulged with reference to the mutual relations of flowers and haustellate insects.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William
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