phallapodeme

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noun

A sclerite articulating with the phallus.

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Meanings

nounphallapodeme (plural phallapodemes)

plural phallapodemes

  1. biologyA sclerite articulating with the phallus.
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    Internally, the male genitalia are made up of a long rod-like phallapodeme (fused to the hypandrium anteriorly), a broad hypandrium (attached to sternite 10) and pregonite (possibly the postgonite), a small ejaculatory apodeme, and a flat basiphallus (forming a ring with the base of the phallapodeme through which the ejaculatory duct passes) that is fused to the distiphallus.

    2009, “Acartophthalmidae”, in Tree of Life web project

Origin

phallus + apodeme

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