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The proboscis response of insects may be defined as an extension of movable mouth-parts in the presence of certain stimuli. The term “proboscis response” is properly applicable to insects possessing a retractile sucking tube, and hence is confined to such forms as Hemiptera, Homoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera.
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Cyril E. Abbott (1932) studied this question.
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