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In the embryo of Blatta it first appears as a thick crescentic fold being slightly divided anterior to the mouth, and in Doryphora it appears as a heart-shaped or deeply bilobed prominence situated in front of the mouth (Wheeler).

The epipharynx and labrum-epipharynx.

Réaumur was, so far as we have been able to ascertain, the first author to describe and figure the epipharynx, which he observed in the honey bee and bumble bee, and called la langue, remarking that it closes the opening into the œsophagus, and that it is applied against the palate. According to Kirby and Spence, De Geer described the epipharynx of the wasp; and Latreille referred to it, calling it the sous labre.

The name epipharynx was bestowed upon this organ by Savigny, who thus speaks of that of the bees: “Ce pharynx est, à la vérité, non seulement caché par la lèvre supérieure, mais encore exactement recouvert par un organe particulier que Réaumur a déjà décrit. C’est une sorte d’appendice membraneux qui est reçu entre les deux branches des mâchoires. Cette partie ayant pour base le bord supérieur du pharynx, peut prendre le nom d’épipharynx ou d’épiglosse.”