Definitionadj. adapted for sucking or clinging by suction
Last update: October 19, 2015
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In the living Cephalodiscus a zooid can crawl by means of its proboscis over the gelatinous processes of the outer side of the coenoecium, a position which it can assume owing to the very great extensibility of the stalk, the proximal suctorial end of which remains attached to the inner surface of some part of the coenoecium (Andersson, 1907). [Please select]
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And to omit a number of instances, in the suctorial Hemiptera or bugs we have different grades of structure in the mouth-parts. [Please select]
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Darwin’s views, a life-history in which the mouth is first mandibulate and then suctorial, as, for example, in a butterfly. [Please select]
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Siphunculus: the suctorial organ of a louse, contained within the tubule: in plant lice =honey tubes; q. [Please select]
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There are, however, peculiar difficulties in those cases in which, as among the Lepidoptera, the same species is mandibulate as a larva, and suctorial as an imago. [Please select]
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The older entomologists divided insects into haustellate or suctorial, and mandibulate or biting insects, the butterfly being an example of one, and the beetle serving to illustrate the other category. [Please select]
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