Mandible (insect mouthpart)
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Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages. Their function is typically to grasp, crush, or cut the insect's food, o
The mandibles of a bull ant
Stag beetle with mandibles modified no longer used in feeding
Musculature of ant mandibles
Wasp drinking; the yellow mandibles can be seen on either side of the mouthparts
Paraneoptera
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Paraneoptera or Acercaria is a superorder of insects which includes lice, thrips, and hemipterans, the true bugs. It also includes the extinct order Permopsocida, known from fossils dating from the Ea
Permopsocida fossil Psocorrhyncha burmitica