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Mandibles

honey bee, mandibles

Ventral view of left mandible of honey bee queen (A), worker (B) and drone (C). After Snodgrass (1956, fig. 23) Anatomy of the honey bee,
, Ithaca, p.334, (1956)
[1].
From evolutionary point of view the mandibles are homologous with coxae of mandibular (forth) head segment.