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Female:
- Monodelphic-prodelphic. Ovary is 116 to
160 um long, usually with a flexure at its distal portion.
- Oviduct is very short, slightly
areolate; spermatheca is 1.0 to 1.8 times the corresponding body
diameter long.
- Uterus 2.5 to 3.5 times as long as body
diameter, tubular, and sometimes containing eggs .
- Post-vulval uterine sac is swollen,
2.0 to 2.5 times as long as the body diameter.
- Vagina extending inwards over 35
to 42% of the body diameter.
- Vulva is slightly protruding.
- Rectum is short, 1.1 to 1.7 times the
anal body width; three large gland-like cells are distinguishable
around the intestine-rectum junction.
- Tail is conical-elongate with acute
terminus.
- Phasmids are located at 28 to 33% of
tail length from anus, and lateral fields terminating at phasmids.
Male::
- Reproductive system is monorchic, with
testis reflexed ventrad anteriorly.
- Spicules are paired and symmetrical:
manubrium is rounded, well developed and ventrad bent, short conoid
calamus, and slightly curved ventrad lamina with acute tip in
lateral view.
- Gubernaculum is well developed, slightly
curved, about one-half of the spicule length, with thin corpus.
- Three small gland-like cells are
distinguishable around the beginning of the cloaca.
- Tail is conical, slightly curved ventrad,
ending in an elongate acute mucro.
- Genital papillae -seven pairs, two
pre-cloacal and five post-cloacal: two pairs subventral at the
middle of tail length, two ventral subterminal, and one lateral
subterminal. One mid-ventral ad-cloacal papilla is present.
- Phasmids are at 46 to 55% of tail length
from the cloacal aperture, close to middle genital papillae.
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