"'Four membranous wings covered with little colored scales of metallic appearance; mouth forming a rolled proboscis, produced by an elongation of the jaws, upon the sides of which are found the rudiments of mandibles and downy palpi
; the inferior wings retained to the superior by a stiff hair; antennae in the form of an elongated club, prismatic; abdomen pointed, The Death's -- headed Sphinx has occasioned much terror among the vulgar, at times, by the melancholy kind of cry which it utters, and the insignia of death which it wears upon its corslet.'"
Next follow those that are constructed for twilight; and, last of all, those destined for total darkness.' By the time that an animal had reached, after numberless generations, the deepest recesses, disuse will on this view have more or less perfectly obliterated its eyes, and natural selection will often have effected other changes, such as an increase in the length of the antennae or palpi
, as a compensation for blindness.
As described earlier, females are larger and have conspicuous longer and darker palpi
Diagnosis.--Both sexes: FI with the external ascoid implanted more apically than the internal one, 3rd palpal segment with the Newstead's sensilla distributed in its middle or more apically, palpi
with the 2nd segment as long as or longer than the 4th, ventrocervical sensilla present.
The new species in our study can be distinguished from other species of Schizomyia associated with Bauhinia in having palpi
with an obconical first segment (it is spherical in S.
Some studies on palpi
belonging to Neotropical charaxids and notes on the wing pattern and behavior of several genera (Lepidoptera: Nymphaloidea, Charaxidae).
Mating behavior.--After starting the experiment, both male and female walked through the arena touching the substrate with antennae and maxillary palpi
. Males scavenged the substrate more actively than females (91.73 s [+ or -] 97.4 (3-427 s, n = 15) and 29.86 s [+ or -] 23.2 (0-72 s, n = 15), respectively).
Le manAaAaAeA?ge, d'ailleurs, est l'endroit le plus palpi
de la Promenade.
1) Labrum, dorsally with a pair of subapical setae near midline and 2-3 setae near lateral margin; 2) segment II of labial palpi
with a strong rounded distomedial blunt projection; 3) coxal gills absent; 4) tarsal claws with 34-39 denticles; 5)abdominal gills whitish; 8) terminal filament subequal in length to cerci (Dominguez et al.
SALAZAR, J.A., 2008.--Some studies on palpi
belonging to neotropical Charaxidae with notes on wing pattern and behavior of several genera (Lep.
This re-description is based on coloration of wings, structure of mouthparts, maxillary palpi
and internal male and female genitalia.
minute, 2-segmented, pale yellow-white setose.