An ovipore is a pore-like sexual organ of a female insect that is inseminated by the spermatophores ejected by the aedeagus of a male insect during copulation.[1] The spermatophores that pass through the ovipore are stored in most insect species in another organ called spermatheca.
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An ovipore is a pore-like sexual organ of a female insect that is inseminated by the spermatophores ejected by the aedeagus of a male insect during copulation...
salamanders and arthropods, and transferred in entirety to the female's ovipore during reproduction. Spermatophores may additionally contain nourishment...
female during copulation. During copulation, the aedeagus connects with the ovipore of a female. The aedeagus can be quite pronounced or de minimis. The base...
occur hours, days, or months after mating. The eggs pass through the ovipore. The ovipore may be at the end of a modified ovipositor or surrounded by a pair...
system which has an external groove between the ostium bursae and the ovipore by which the sperm is transferred to the egg rather than having the mating...
transferred to the egg by an external channel between the ostium and the ovipore. Other nonditrysian moths have a common cloaca. The moths are homoneurous...
after mating, from the copulatory opening (the ostium bursae), to the ovipore for fertilisation. Capinera, John L. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology...
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