anterior head segmentation

id: GO:0035288
name: anterior head segmentation
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Partitioning the insect head anlage into procephalic (labral, (ocular), antennal and intercalary) segments. The procephalic segments lie anterior to the gnathal (posterior head) segments, and are pattered by different segmentation gene cascades to the abdominal, thoracic and posterior head (gnathal) segments.

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