Male genital sclerites of Neuropterida:: an attempt at homologisation (Insecta: Holometabola)
Male genital sclerites of Neuropterida:: an attempt at homologisation (Insecta: Holometabola)
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DOI:
10.1078/s0044-5231(04)70071-6
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发表时间:
2002-05-01
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1.4
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Aspöck, U
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作者:
Aspöck, U
Previous approaches to interpret male genital sclerites of Raphidioptera, Megaloptera and Neuroptera (constituting the superorder Neuropterida) have become polarized in the controversy between "archaic derivates and evolutionary novelties". Arguments for deciphering the homologies via the gonocoxites and their corresponding styli and gonapophyses are presented. Primitive machilid (Archaeognatha) structures provide the basis for identification of the amazingly similar male genital sclerites of Raphidioptera. The comparatively complete segment 9 of Raphidioptera, consisting of tergite, sternite, large gonocoxites, styli and gonapophyses, serves as a model of reference for homologising segments 10 and 11 in Raphidioptera and for interpreting male genital sclerites in Megaloptera and Neuroptera. Existing terminology is inconsistent with respect to homology, therefore names for structures will be applied strictly and redefined according to the hypotheses presented here. No new names will be introduced. The large 9th gonocoxites are modified to appendage-like sclerites in Megaloptera and Neuroptera, while in some Neuroptera they have shifted into the genital chamber or become obliterated. The styli of segment 9 have disappeared independently several times. The 9th gonapophyses have remained rod-like in some Raphidiidae (hypo-valva), but are secondarily absent in Megaloptera and most Neuroptera. Sclerites of segment 10 underwent very dramatic changes (and obliterations) with respect to copulation, and the 10th tergite has become amalgamated with tergite 11 to form the terminal ectoproct. All other sclerites have migrated into the genital chamber. The 10th gonocoxites and the 10th gonapophyses evolved into a joint structure, the parameres. The styli of the 10th gonocoxites have fused together to form a median sclerite: the mediuncus. The 11th tergite is part of the ectoproct, the 11th sternite may be present as a tiny relic sclerite, the subanale. The gonarcus is identified as the 11th gonocoxites, the entoprocessus is defined as the 11th gonapophyses, the arcessus represents the (fused) 10th styli. The hypandrium inter-num, a trident sclerite at the gonopore remains enigmatic as a possible autapomorphy of the Neuropterida.