palpifern.
/ˈpalpᵻfə/, U.S. /ˈpælpəfər/ Entomology.
A part of an insect bearing a palp; spec. the sclerite bearing a maxillary palp. Cf. palpiger n.
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1841 E. Newman Familiar Introd. Hist. Insects 162 The feeler-bearer or palpifer,..is usually placed above the stalk of the feeler-jaw.
1895 C. Waterhouse Labium & Submentum Certain Mandibulate Insects 8 We need not expect the division between the palpifer and stipes to be specially marked here.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses iii. 46 The palpus and its base, the palpifer.., arise from the proximal outer margin of the stipes.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xii. 181 Each of these [sc. labial palps] is composed of four segments and is joined to the prementum by the flexible, membranous palpifer.
2001 Jrnl. Nat. Hist. 35 1173 They form a monophyletic group characterized by the synapomorphic loss of the ventral suture between the galea and palpifer of the maxilla.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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