Siphon (insect anatomy)
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Siphon (insect anatomy)
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A siphon is a tubular organ of the respiratory system of some insects that spend a significant amount of their time underwater, that serves as a breathing tube. The larvae of several kinds of insects, including mosquitoes, tabanid flies, and Belostomatidae) live in the water and breathe through a siphon. Some adult insects which spend considerable time underwater have an abdominal breathing tube. For example, adult water scorpions have the caudal process which consists of a pair of half-tubes ca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon_(insect_anatomy)
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2023-06-04T18:00:32Z
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