- plural of palpus.
palpi
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The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; the shmoo-like ant caresses the mosquito's proboscis with its palpi.
From Time Magazine Archive
The common name is due to these projecting palpi.
From Butterflies Worth Knowing by Clarence M. Weed
The palpi are jointed—usually in three parts—are covered with scales, and often furnished with hairs or bristles.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux
Cephalothorax, legs, sternum, mandibles, and palpi whitish; tarsi, and sometimes metatarsi, slightly infuscated; sternum sometimes more yellowish, no markings.
From New West Indian Spiders Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXIII, Art. XLI, pp. 639-642 by Nathan Banks
The fore wings should slope slightly forwards so that a line drawn from the point of one to the point of the other will just miss the head and palpi.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
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