Friday, May 1, 2009

Aedeagus

Here are some images of the aedeagus of the Apodrosus species. As you can see, there is three different 'schemes', one of which is shared by three of the species. In some cases has been difficult to describe the apex and the sclerites of the internal sac of this structure.


There remain three new species for describe, two from the Dominican Republic and one from Haiti. I'll be working on build the genus description in order to cover all the variations found and to get a particular set of characters for each species. I hope to finish before may 20... let's see...

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