All species are sleek, raptorial predators, relying on fast locomotion and large mandibles to actively chase down a variety of arthropod prey. |
Both quadrates are preserved in articulation with the respective mandibles. |
Leaf-cutting ants travel from their nests to trees and hack off bits of leaves, which they grip in their mandibles. |
Other eusocial animal groups defend themselves with stingers, mandibles, and sharp teeth. |
It is clear from the well-preserved articulated mandibles of KUVP that the sutural surfaces of the apposed adsymphysials did interpenetrate. |
A nauplius consists of the first three cephalic segments and the appendages belonging to those segments, the antennules, antennae, and mandibles. |