with paired testes joined together at front end with a bridge; copulatory organ with cuticular tube; paired germaria in hind part of body in contact wtih elongated, notched or lobed vitellaria; germinal layer of germaria ventrocaudal; gonopore in last body third;
Notes from synonyms
Diagnosis for Kirgisellinae Coronopharynx
Pharynx margin bears numerous tufts of sensory hairs, through which a weak enlargement gives the impression of a form of tentacles; testes in hind body third, not joined to one another; copulatory organ with proximal seminal vesicle and granular vesicle attached caudally to it; cuticular apparatus a short tube; Germovitellaria with anterior long vitellaria and caudal and medial germaria, whose germinal layer lies at front end; gonopore in last body third;
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