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Malpighian tubules

The Malpighian tubules are a series of fine tubes that extend from the gut (approximately where the mid-gut joins the hind-gut) into the haemolymph circulating in the body of an insect.

Waste material is absorbed by the malpighian tubules, carried to the gut and then excreted.

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