Genital synonyms

Associated with these glands are frequently to be found bundles or pairs of long and variously modified setae which are termed penial setae,to distinguish them from other setae sometimes but not always associated with rather similarglandswhich are found anteriorly to these, and often in the immediate neighbourhood of the spermathecae; the latter are spoken of as genital setae.

It is also seen to be connected with a more remote ganglion - the genital.

The male duct vd becomes fleshy and muscular near its termination at the genital pore, forming the penis p. Attached to it is a diverticulum fl, in which the spermatozoa which have descended from the ovo-testis are stored and modelled into sperm ropes or spermatophores.

It is therefore a haemocoel, the coelom of the developed insect being represented only by the cavities of the genital glands and their ducts.

The presence of rudiments of the genital ducts of both sexes in the embryo of either sex is interesting and suggestive.