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Phonorhynchoidinae Phonorhynchopsis Diagnosis


Phonorhynchoidinae with two stylets in the male atrial organs: a prostate stylet type IV and an accessory stylet type IV. Prostate stylet type IV rather broad and tubular, shorter than the accessory stylet type IV. Bursa bipartite, consisting of a muscular and a sperm-resorbing part.

[From Willems WR, Reygel P, Steenkiste NV, Tessens B, Artois TJ (2017): 458]


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