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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. 2

Positional nomenclature of the male reproductive structure. a, diagrammatic representation of the post-insemination spermatophore of Liocheles cf. australasiae Fabricius, 1775 (Thailand, Roi Et Province, MHNG), lateral aspect, indicating its position relative to male and female during copulation. b, diagrammatic representation of the pre-insemination spermatophore Heterometrus mysorensis Kovařík, 2004 (India, MHNG), lateral aspect. c-d, diagrammatic representation of the left hemispermatophore of Heterometrus indus (De Geer, 1778) (Sri Lanka, MHNG), contra-lateral (c) and anterior (d) aspects. Abbreviations: A (anterior), B (basal), D (distal), L (lateral), CL (contra-lateral) and P (posterior)

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