chelicerae

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chelicerae

pair of movable oral appendages adapted for cutting carried by acarids, including ticks.

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The length and width of the base of this chelicera were comparable to the chelicerae c1 and c2, but it had two fangs.

Short Communication - Bicephality in Eratigena atrica Larva

The third possibility is that the chelicerae were used to dig or rake the sediment.

Ichnology of the Devonian (Emsian) Campbellton Formation, New Brunswick, Canada

Lindquist (1998) clearly showed that in some Trombidiform lineages, the chelicerae were modified to stylets that were used to perforate the surface of plants and to extract the cellular content of plants.

Mites occurrence on Pachira aquatica Aubl. including aspects of external mouthpart morphology of Brachytydeus formosa (Acari: Tydeidae)/Ocorrencia de acaros em Paquira aquatica Aubl. incluindo aspectos morfologicos do aparato bucal de Brachytydeus formosa (Acari: Tydeidae)

Lab-based feeding trials consisted of three treatments of grasshoppers and spiders: 1) grasshoppers only as a control, 2) grasshoppers and predator spiders, and 3) grasshoppers and risk spiders with their chelicerae glued, again to prevent lethal consumptive interactions.

Non-consumptive interactions between grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and wolf spiders (Lycosidae) produce trophic cascades in an old-field ecosystem

Thanks to the pelican spider's long neck and chelicerae, its prey struggles at a harmless distance.

Pelican spiders: slow, safe assassins

A medial unpaired labral bud and chelicerae appeared anterior to the stomodeal invagination.

Biological studies of coconut infesting mite- Dolichotertranychus cocos

They then crush the prey with their chelicerae and suck up the juices.

Common spiders of New York

In the magnifier, the spiders, their spots and dots, their legs and chelicerae, eerily resembled their arachnid cousins, the crab and lobster.

SpiderWerk

The ventral side of the embryo is flattened, the prosomal appendages (chelicerae, pedipalps, and walking legs) have begun to lengthen, the stomodaeum is located slightly anterior to the chelicerae, and the lateral organs have begun to develop (Sekiguchi et al.

Amebocyte production begins at stage 18 during embryogenesis in limulus polyphem us, the American horseshoe crab

The mouthparts consist of a pair of segmented palps (feelers), a pair of sharp-bladed chelicerae (pincers) that slice the skin, and a needlelike hypostome through which blood is sucked.

The Ugly World of Ticks

Chelicerae reddish-yellow with dark spots on the median zone; fingers reddish.

Taxonomic and ecological observations on the scorpions collected in the Forest of Ankazomivady-Ambositra and on the "RS d'Ivohibe", Madagascar

Mygalemorphs are spiders that do not spin a web to capture prey, but instead ambush their prey and stab it with their chelicerae (fangs).