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Fig. 16

From: The male sexual apparatus in the order Scorpiones (Arachnida): a comparative study of functional morphology as a tool to define hypotheses of homology

Fig. 16

Hemispermatophore of Bothriuridae Simon, 1880. Cercophonius squama (Gervais, 1843) (Australia, MHNG) (a–c). Lisposoma elegans Lawrence, 1928 (d – e) and Lisposoma josehermana Lamoral, 1979 (f), redrawn and adapted from Lamoral [3]. Lateral (a), anterior (b, d) and contra-lateral (c, e – f) aspects. Arrow 1 indicates the anterior protrusion of the subex (= semi-lunar shelf sensu Stockwell [4]). Arrow 2 indicates the absence of capsular concavity and basal crest. Arrow 3 indicates the absence of terminal membrane and capsular foramen. Arrow 4 indicates the invaginated subex. Abbreviations: bcr (basal crest), cf (capsular foramen), cl (clapser), cc (capsular concavity), ldc (latero-distal crest). Scales, 1 mm (a, f), 0.5 mm (b – e)

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