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In this article we will discuss about the head and mouth parts of male culex with the help of diagram.
Fig. 150 HEAD AND MOUTH PARTS OF CULEX
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1. It is the slide of head and mouth parts of male Culex mosquito.
2. The head bears a pair of large compound eyes and a pair of long and plumose antennae.
3. Mouth parts are of piercing and sucking type and include a pair of very long and hairy maxillary palps, a pointed labrum – epipharynx and a proboscis.
4. The proboscis is made up of labium and hypo pharynx.
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5. Mandibles and maxillae greatly reduced or absent.
6. Maxillary palps extend much beyond the proboscis and are pointed at tips.
7. The blood is sucked by labium and Labrum-epipharynx.
8. The maxillary palps are three jointed bristled and shorter than proboscis in female and longer than proboscis in male.
