. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 2 Annals of tJie South African Museum. circular area, which it divides into a right and left half, each half being formed of a piece of hardened cuticula (genital sclerite), movably articulated with the adjacent half-sternite by means of a strip of soft skin. This soft skin bears no hairs and is usually sunken in, forming a curved groove. It is characteristic of the adult male that the, oval or circular area is ahoays large, generally about half as long as the sternite itself, but sometimes longer.* I
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 2 Annals of tJie South African Museum. circular area, which it divides into a right and left half, each half being formed of a piece of hardened cuticula (genital sclerite), movably articulated with the adjacent half-sternite by means of a strip of soft skin. This soft skin bears no hairs and is usually sunken in, forming a curved groove. It is characteristic of the adult male that the, oval or circular area is ahoays large, generally about half as long as the sternite itself, but sometimes longer.* In immature males a similar pair of genital sclerites occurs, but they are much smaller, being only i-i- of the sternite in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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