Diagnosis: Median occipital
sclerites yellow; scutum uniformly yellow to yellowish brown; upper frons yellow to brown; hind femora uniformly yellow; wings at least partly infuscate.
His diagrams support our conclusions in the above description, including the fusion of the aedeagal
sclerites with the surrounding ectophallic sheath, and the connections between the arch and the cingular rami.
Each segment (A1-A7) divided into three subsegments separated by transverse depressions; spiracle located laterally on dorsum of second subsegment; second, third subsegments separated by pronounced depression bearing pair of clear sublateral
sclerites. A1: anterior subsegment small, spindle shaped, separated from second subsegment by small depression; dorsum with single pair of SMS; second, third subsegments longer, broader, similar in size and setation to those of A2, A3.
All statements of
sclerite position refer to the unexpanded left bulb from its ventral view.
Various Shapes of Intercalary
Sclerites of the Labium in Several Taxa.
trichiuri by presenting eight genital spines (six of them larger and two smaller), by differences in the shape of the inner and outer pairs of hooks, in the testes distribution, by the larger number of testes, and by the larger
sclerite c, as well as the largest association of the
sclerite b3 with the fair-lead.
Dondersiidae comprises nine genera and 32 species (Table 1) on the basis of a thin cuticle without skeletal
sclerites or epidermal papillae (not unique to this family), and by varying combinations of characters: body with or without posterior end drawn out into fingerlike projection; with two or more types of raised (not adpressed) solid
sclerites or one type of adpressed scales; radula monostichous with two or more denticles per row, the central two fused or not fused distally, or radula lacking; ventrolateral foregut glands as groups of extraepithelial unicellular gland cells ("follicles") or as multicellular glands ("type A"); and with or without copulatory spicules.
in press) and the Early Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland (Harvey 2010, and unpublished data) are less thermally altered and contain a greater variety of recoverable microfossils, including Little Bear-type remains of chancelloriid
sclerites and hyolithid helens.
An ant's expanding belly causes the
sclerites, or armored plates, covering its body to spread apart.
The sparse behavioral data suggest that copulating males typically first produce a mating plug consisting of the distal two palpal
sclerites stuck in the female reproductive apparatus (epigynum), thereby preventing additional access to the used female copulatory opening by rival males.
