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Agriculture · Q576

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 576

Q576

Asymmetrical male genitalia is present which insect order?

A.
Grylloblatodea
B.
Embioptera
C.
Zoraptera
D.
All of these
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
Asymmetrical male genitalia is present Grylloblatodea, Embioptera and Zoraptera insect order.
In insects, on the other hand, genital asymmetry is a widespread phenomenon. An aedeagus is a reproductive organ of male arthropods through which they secrete sperm from the testes during copulation with a female.
In some insects the endophallus and the gonopore may be everted through the phallotreme and into the female's bursa copulatrix. Genital lobes referred to as phallomeres form at the sides of the gonopore in the ontogeny of some insects.