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Document Type
Research
Abstract
The internal reproductive organs of the male include a pair of testes, each composed of about 37 follicles and connected to a short vas efferens; a pair of vasa deferentia; about 12 paired accessory glands; a twice folded ejaculatory duct and a membranous, extensible intromittent organ. The external structures of the male include a chitinous collar, pallial complex and ninth abdominal sternum. The internal reproductive organs of the female include a pair of ovaries, each composed of 11 ovarioles; paired lateral oviducts; a short median oviduct; a terminal genital chamber; a trilobed spermatheca attached to a spermathecal gland, and a pair of median glands. The external structures of the female include the ovipositor and its related sclerites and apodemes.
Publication Date
1959
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
66
Issue
1
First Page
484
Last Page
503
Copyright
©1959 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Widdows, Richard E. and Wick, James R.
(1959)
"Morphology of the Reproductive System of Tetrix arenosa angusta (Hancock) (Orthoptera, Tetrigidae),"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 66(1), 484-503.
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https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol66/iss1/67