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  4. Statement Biting and chewing mouth parts are the most primitive type of mouth pares in insects. Reason Holometabolus insects have hiring and chewing type of mouth pans in their larvae.

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Q. Statement Biting and chewing mouth parts are the most primitive type of mouth pares in insects. Reason Holometabolus insects have hiring and chewing type of mouth pans in their larvae.

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The chewing type is considered the most basic one, since it is common in many free living species (beetles, ants, etc) and consists of large mandibles and a pair of separate maxillae- I and of fused maxillae- II (.i.e., labium). Both types of maxillae serve to push (he minced food particles into the mouth.