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nounharpagone (plural harpagones)
plural harpagones
- plural normallybiologyThe clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods
...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...
1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45
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