25 Haz 2025 Çarşamba
Ultrastructures of aedeagus and spermatheca of Chaetocnema (Hortensoides) arida Foudras, 1860 (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) by Scanning Electron Microscope
Abstract : The paper presents unknown ultrastructures of aedeagus and spermatheca of Chaetocnema arida Foudras, 1860 which is one of the species of the subgenus Chaetocnema (Hortensoides) Özdikmen, 2021 are studied and figured under both stereo microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope from Turkey for the first time. The studied specimens were collected from Çankırı province in 2013 and 2014. Aedeagi and spermathecae so far were studied on the basis of only stereo microscopic studies within the genus Chaetocnema Stephens. Until now, there is no any ultrastructural study with SEM on male and female genitalia of Chaetocnema species, therefore, the present study is the first for this purpose. In accordance with this, to reveal and to obtain new diagnostic characters with ultrastructural and detailed investigations of aedeagus and spermatheca of the species Chaetocnema arida is basically aimed with this study. It is revealed new diagnostic characters for both the aedeagus and spermatheca by investigations on ultrastructural morphologies in SEM.