Palpless

Palp´less


a.1.(Zool.) Without a palpus.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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We suggest that such plugged females do remove whole palpal plugs (perhaps using their legs or rubbing against the substrate), and that such removal would then result in the common morphological outcome: palpless (eunuch) males, and females plugged only by the male's two terminal sclerites.
Nephilid spider eunuch phenomenon induced by female or rival male aggressiveness
Copulation and sperm induction by normal and palpless male linyphiid spiders.
The effect of perceived predation risk on male courtship and copulatory behavior in the wolf spider Pardosa milvina (Araneae, Lycosidae)
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