anterior head segmentation
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.
GO:0035287
head segmentation
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GO:0097065
anterior head development
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procephalic segmentation
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