- second valvifers
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(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)In the ovipositor, a basal pair of lobes or oblong plates supporting the base of the second valvulae.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
second valvifers
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valvifers — n. pl. [L. valva, leaf of a folding door; ferre, to bear] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The basal plates of the ovipositor, derived from the basal segment of the gonopods; also known as the first and second gonocoxae … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
pubic process — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Scarabaeoidea, fused pubic plates above the second valvifers (fused second valvulae) … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
gonocoxite — n.; pl. ae [Gr. gone, that which produces seed; L. coxa, hip] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The coxite of the gonopod; see second valvifers … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
