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Fig. 5

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. 5

Male reproductive apparatus of Chaerilidae Pocock, 1893. Chaerilus phami Lourenço, 2011 (Vietnam, Conson Island, MHNG). Hemispermatophore (a–c), lateral (a), anterior (b) and contra-lateral (c) aspects. Post-insemination spermatophore (d–e), lateral (d) and anterior (e) aspects. The full arrow indicates the site and direction of semen expulsion and the dotted arrow indicates the bend of the stem responsible for the increase of pressure inside the sperm reservoir. Scales, 0.5 mm

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Frontiers in Zoology

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