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Structure, function, and morphological conformity of the male and female genitalia in the true bug genus Pyrrhocoris fall. (Hymenoptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

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In representatives of the genus Pyrrhocoris examined, the male and female genitalia are highly congruent and possess a number of structures providing firm fixation of copulating individuals, at the same time ensuring a quick release of partners when necessary. Mechanic prevention of interspecific hybridization is realized in sympatric species and absent in allopatric ones.

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    D. A. Gapon

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Original Russian Text © D.A. Gapon, 2007, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 729–741.

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Gapon, D.A. Structure, function, and morphological conformity of the male and female genitalia in the true bug genus Pyrrhocoris fall. (Hymenoptera, Pyrrhocoridae). Entmol. Rev. 87, 1099–1108 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807090011

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