Sentence examples for a long proboscis from inspiring English sources

The elephant louse has chewing mouthparts, with the modified mandibles borne on the end of a long proboscis.

Details of kalligrammatid wing eyespots and their pigmentation, their wing scales, and their evolution of a long proboscis for siphoning nectar all bore close comparison with examples from the modern Lepidoptera.

Species with a long proboscis reach out and pick up detritus around the burrow entrance; the material collected becomes attached to strings of mucus and is transferred to the mouth.

This turned out to be misleading because many of the creatures are so unusual that they are still difficult to classify.Opabinia, for example, grew to about 8cm (3 inches), had five eyes, a body that was a series of lobes, a fan-shaped tail and ate using a long proboscis.

He noticed that the Angraecum, like the local British moth-pollinated Platanthera orchids, had nectar at the very bottom of the long spur and that moths would require a long proboscis in order to claim this reward.

As more fossils were discovered, it became clear the Tully monster once had a narrow, foot-long body with a long proboscis that ended in a claw-like mouth... keep reading.

Indonesia has produced many of the favourites, including Amorphophallus titanum, which has a long proboscis-like structure that heats up to further disperse its smell.

All elephants have several distinctive features the most notable of which is a long trunk or proboscis, used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water and grasping objects.

His presumption for this study was that, because of an allometric relationship between body size and cibarial muscle mass, a disproportionately long proboscis has a reduced nectar uptake rate resulting from a higher nectar flow resistance and therefore a greater handling time.

In addition, they produced testable predictions including his then-controversial proposal that the long nectary of Angraecum sesquipedale meant that there must be a moth with an equally long proboscis.

Metapherna Robinson & Nielsen [ 58] is an Australian genus that has been placed in Myrmecozelinae in Tineidae, although Robinson & Nielsen [ 58] noted that it has, e.g., an unusually long proboscis for a tineoid.