Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Cranefly - anatomical query
Posted by John Bratton on 21-02-2009 12:37
#1
An article in the latest Bulletin of the Dipterists' Forum (a UK newsletter) on distinguishing female Euphylidorea phaeostigma and E. meigeni shows differences in the shape of the vaginal apodemes. Where do you find this structure, please? It looks to be a fairly good match for the ventral side of the dorsal piece of the ovipositor.
John Bratton
Posted by Andrey Ozerov on 21-02-2009 15:19
#2
I am not specialist in females of this genus, but I could summarise my own knowledge and add (read in Savchenko,1986) the foolowing. When you look at the end of female abdomen from ventral side it is seen through tissues and posited in front of the base of cerci. as a rule they are different in differebt species, with lateral sclerotized rods. If the end of abdomen is light you can see it just as it is or in glycerol without KOH preparation.
Posted by Andrey Ozerov on 21-02-2009 15:22
#3
Sorry, my computer is burnt and out of order, so I used this another one. Cranefly
Posted by John Bratton on 23-02-2009 14:37
#4
Thanks very much. So it is an internal structure, not what I could see under the ovipositor.
John Bratton