Sentences with phrase «of pedipalps»

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In South American deserts, the wolf spider Allocosa senex lacks such a sophisticated basket, but still carries sand out of the tunnel using its pedipalps.

The arachnids look like big, hairy spiders with an extra pair of legs — which are really pedipalps, leg - like structures ending in an adhesive sucker, and used like arms for grasping, holding, and climbing.

All male spiders have a pair of sex organs called pedipalps, held like two boxing gloves in front of their face, but in this particular daddy - long - legs spider the right pedipalp was twice as large as the left.

(A) shows the final approach of the male before he inserts his pedipalp (the sperm delivery organ) into the genital opening of the female (B).

The female bites the abdomen of the male while the pedipalp is still attached (C).

-- «feet,» or pedipalps, next to the front of its head.

Described in a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution by an international team of researchers, the new creature, named Chimerarachne yingi, shares traits with a modern spider, like fangs, male pedipalps, four walking legs and silk - producing spinnerets.