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Mouthparts of a female mosquito feeding on blood. The flexible labium supports the bundle of stylets which penetrates the host's skin. In female mosquitoes, all mouthparts are elongated. The labium encloses all other mouthparts, the stylets, like a sheath. The labrum forms the main feeding tube, through which blood is sucked.
The salivary glands (element 30 in numbered diagram) in an insect's mouth produce saliva. The salivary ducts lead from the glands to the reservoirs and then forward through the head to an opening called the salivarium, located behind the hypopharynx. By moving its mouthparts (element 32 in numbered diagram) the insect can mix its food with saliva.
The mosquito larva's head has prominent mouth brushes used for feeding, a large thorax with no legs, and a segmented abdomen. It breathes air through a siphon on its abdomen, so must come to the surface frequently. It spends most of its time feeding on algae, bacteria, and other microbes in the water's surface layer. It dives below the surface ...
English: Illustration showing the anatomy of a mosquito (Culex pipiens). Français : Diagramme montrant l'anatomie d'un moustique ( Culex pipiens ). Bahasa Indonesia: Ilustrasi yang menunjukkan ( anatomi ) nyamuk ( Culex pipiens ).
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The earliest insects had chewing mouthparts. Specialisation includes mouthparts modified for siphoning, piercing, sucking and sponging. These modifications have evolved a number of times. For example, mosquitoes and aphids both pierce and suck; however, female mosquitoes feed on animal blood whereas aphids feed on plant fluids. This section ...
(A) grasshopper, (B) honey bee, (C) butterfly (D) mosquito. Bembix rostrata female using its labrum in sucking the blood out of a fly. The labrum is a flap-like structure that lies immediately in front of the mouth in almost all extant Euarthropoda. The most conspicuous exceptions are the Pycnogonida, which are probably chelicerates.
Original - Anatomy of an adult mosquito, Culex pipiens Reason Detailed, highly encyclopedic SVG diagram of an adult mosquito (Culex pipiens). Similar in style to the current FPs of the dragonfly, wasp and ant. Articles in which this image appears Mosquito, Culex Creator LadyofHats. Support as nominator--Anxietycello 00:14, 11 April 2010 (UTC)