morphology and histology of the female reproductive system of abedus ovatus stal (belostomatidae: hemiptera: insecta)
;TG Lalitha;K Shyamasundari;K Hanumantha Rao
kurdistan journal of applied research1997Vol. 92pp. 129-
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lalitha1997memriasmorphology
Abstract
In Abedus ovatus Stal, the female reproductive system consists of a pair of ovaries leading to oviduct and opens out by genital aperture. Each ovary is composed of five telotrophic ovarioles, with four different regions, terminal filament, germarium, vitellarium and pedicel. Germarium and vitellarium are the germ tubes in which the development of oocyte occurs. In the germarium, the differentiation of trophocytes into young oocytes was observed in three zones, ZI, ZII and ZIII. Further development of oocytes in the vitellarium could be divided into seven stages, STI STVII. The developed eggs are lodged in the pedicel