sting apparatus

sting apparatus
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In female Hymenoptera, the modified ovipositor of aculeates and many terebrantes, usually containing the venom gland and one accessory gland, the Dufour gland; others may sometimes be present: the Koshevnikov or Koshewnikow gland, the Bordas\' gland, the sting sheath gland, or anal gland.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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