trophic pouch

trophic pouch
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Siphunculata (Anoplura), a pouch opening off the cibarium housing three closely compressed stylets, with only the anterior end exposed, functioning in piercing the skin for blood meals.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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