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Female-driven intersexual coevolution in beetle genitalia

, 2020
Genital coevolution is a pervasive phenomenon as changes in one sex tend to impose fitness consequences on the other generating sexual conflict. Sexual conflict is often thought to cause stronger selection on males due to the Darwin-Bateman’s anisogamy ...
Genevcius, Bruno C, Bruno C. Genevcius, Marvaldi, Adriana E, Genevcius, Bruno, Filipe M. Bianchi, Joanna Baker, Adriana E. Marvaldi, Marvaldi, Adriana, Bianchi, Filipe, Baker, Joanna, Bianchi, Filipe M, Bianchi, Filipe M.   +11 more
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An effective method for the close up photography of insect genitalia during dissection: a case study on the Lepidoptera

Nota Lepidopterologica, 2018
Characters of male and female genitalia in insects in general, especially in Lepidoptera, are essential for species identification as they display extensive morphological variation.
Dominic Wanke, Hossein Rajaei
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A new species of Hortipes (Araneae, Corinnidae), the first spider with an insertable retrolateral tibial apophysis on the male palp

, 2012
Hortipes gigapophysalis (Araneae, Corinnidae) is a new species described from both sexes from montane forest on Mt Nimba, eastern Guinea. The species is remarkable for its long, whip-shaped retrolateral tibial apophysis (RTA) on the male palp.
Jocqué, Rudy, Arnaud Henrard, Henrard, Arnaud., Bosselaers, Jan, Jan Bosselaers, Rudy Jocqué, Bosselaers, Jan,, Jocqu\ue9, Rudy, Henrard, Arnaud   +8 more
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A new species of Rhodnius from Brazil (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae)

ZooKeys, 2017
A colony was formed from eggs of a Rhodnius sp. female collected in Taquarussu, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and its specimens were used to describe R. taquarussuensis sp. n. This species is similar to R.
João Aristeu da Rosa, Hernany Henrique Garcia Justino, Juliana Damieli Nascimento, Vagner José Mendonça, Claudia Solano Rocha, Danila Blanco de Carvalho, Rossana Falcone, Maria Tercília Vilela de Azeredo-Oliveira, Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi, Jader de Oliveira   +9 more
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Three new species of Omalodes (Omalodes) (Histeridae, Histerinae) from South America

ZooKeys, 2013
Three new species of Omalodes are described from South America, including descriptions of male and female genitalia. Omalodes (O.) mazuri sp. n. is described from Peru and Bolivia; Omalodes (O.) punctulatus sp.n.
Daniel P. Moura, Lucia Almeida
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High maternal androstenedione levels during pregnancy in a small precocial mammal with female genital masculinisation [PDF]

-Masculinisation of female genitalia is an intriguing phenomenon amongst some mammalian species and its endocrinological basis as well as its adaptive value is still heavily debated. We recently reported female genital masculinisation in Cavia magna. The
Cornelia Kraus, Kristina A. Pfannkuche, Ton G. G. Groothuis, Fritz Trillmich   +3 more
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Individual male perception of female genitalia

, 2016
Introduction and hypothesis: Australian Medicare data show that the rates of cosmetic labiaplasty have tripled over the last decade; however, there is little understanding about the social factors that contribute to the popularity of female genital ...
Becuzzi, Nadine, Horrocks, Emma, Vangaveti, Venkat N., Askern, Althea, Rane, Ajay, Iyer, Jay   +5 more
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Two new species of genus Oecleopsis Emeljanov from China, with descriptions of female genitalia of five species (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae)

ZooKeys, 2018
Two new species of genus Oecleopsis Emeljanov, 1971, O. laminatus Zhi & Chen, sp. n. and O. productus Zhi & Chen, sp. n., and a new record, O. yoshikawai (Ishihara, 1961), are described and illustrated from China. Female genitalia of five
Yan Zhi, Lin Yang, Pei Zhang, Xiang-Sheng Chen   +3 more
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Batrachedra olei Falck, sp. nov. from the Canary Islands, Spain (Lepidoptera: Batrachedridae)

SHILAP
Batrachedra olei Falck, sp. nov. is described based on specimens from La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain. Adults, male and female genitalia are figured. DNA barcodes are analyzed. A differential diagnosis from the similar B.
Per Falck
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A new pygmy leafmining moth, Stigmella tatrica sp. n., from the alpine zone of the Tatra Mountains (Lepidoptera, Nepticulidae)

Nota Lepidopterologica, 2017
Stigmella tatrica sp. n. is described from moths taken in the alpine zone of the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia. The new species is similar to several other montane species of Stigmella Schrank, 1802 in the S.
Zdenko Tokár, Aleš Laštůvka, Erik van Nieukerken   +2 more
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