the outer lobe of the lingua or labium of certain insects
Examples of 'paraglossa' in a sentence
paraglossa
Only the lengths of the paraglossa, stipe, galea, mentum, prementum and maxillary palpus differed significantly between thesetwo bee types.
Pignata Maria Izabel Barnez, Stort Antonio Carlos, Malaspina Osmar 1998, 'Study of the length of the mouthparts of Africanized, Caucasian and Africanized/Caucasianhoney bee crosses, and relationships between glossa size and food gathering behavior',Genetics and Molecular Biologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571998000400010. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)