oviporus

oviporus
n. [L. ovum, egg; porus, passage]
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In Lepidoptera, the reproductive opening on segment 9 that serves for the discharge of eggs.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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