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Actinoposthiidae Pelophila Diagnosis


With frontal organ. Genital openings separate. Male copulatory bulb of duplex type with cirrus internus. With bilateral testes and ovaries. Seminal bursa with anterior cellular insemination apparasuses ("Matrixhoerner" after Westblad 1946) and invaginated spermiducal duct directed caudad.

[From Faubel A, Warwick RM (2005): 5-6]


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