Proboscis of Anthophora plumipes (by David Sharp, 1901)

Description:

Description: English: A, Proboscis of a "long-tongued" bee, Anthophora pilipes (=A. plumipes) ; B, lower, C, upper view of proboscis of an " obtuse-tongued " bee, Prosopsis pubescens; a, Labrum ; b, stipes ; c, palpiger ; d, scale ; f, lobe ; g, palpus ; h, cardo of maxilla ; i, lorum; k, submentum; l, mentum; m, labial palp; n, paraglossa; o, ligula; p, tip of ligula (with spoon at tip and some of the hairs more magnitied); k, hypopharyngeal sclerites. Date: 1901. Source: The Cambridge natural history -- Vol. 6. [1901] Insects (pt. 2). Link to the book. Author: David Sharp (1840 – 1922).