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Fig. 25

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. 25

Spermatophores of non-bothriurid Scorpionoidea, Hormiops davidovi Fage, 1934 (a, e) and Heterometrus mysorensis Kovařík, 2004 (f, j). Hemispermatophore, contra-lateral aspect (a, f). Spermatophore, lateral aspect (e, j). Evertion of the sperm duct, detail of the mechanism (b – d, g – i). Abbreviation: hos (holosolenos). The numbered circles with arrow show the invagination of the subex (1) and the fold of the basal carina between clasper and hemi/holosolenos (2). The circles represent the axes of rotation and the dots are fixed points along which membranes are unfolding

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