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Female:
- Lip region low, conoid, flattened, with three annules.
- Stylet stout, knobs usually large and cupped, but sometimes
rounded or sloping posteriorly.
- Median bulb broadly oval, tbe valve large.
- Esophageal glands well overlapping intestine;
- Gonad outstretched; spermatheca oval to rectangular or rarely
elongated, usually filled with sperm.
- Postuterine sac 1.1 times as long as the vulval body diameter.
- Tail short, broadly conoid, the terminus truncate, coarsely or
not annulated, with a distinct, subventral projection one or two
annules long.
- Phasmid centered in the lateral field near the middle of
the tail.
- Lateral field composed of four incisures, inner incisures
meeting near the anus or on the tail; lateral field open near tail
tip.
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
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Male:
- Similar to female in most morphometric characteristics.
- Gonad outstretched or reflexed.
- Spicules slender, curved, partially cephalated; velum long,
narrow, inconspicuous.
- Gubernaculum curved, linear.
- Caudal alae crenate, arising anterior to spicules and extending
to tail tip.
- Phasmids near the center of the tail.
- Lateral field usually not extending past the cloacal opening
Ref: Bernard, 1984.
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