Biology:Ovipore

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Short description: Female reproductive organ in arthropods

An ovipore is a pore-like sexual organ of a female insect that is inseminated by the spermatophores ejected by the aedeagus of a male insect during copulation.[1] The spermatophores that pass through the ovipore are stored in most insect species in another organ called spermatheca.

References

  1. Thomas, Daniel; Leal, Sandra; Conway, Hugh (2014). "Copula Duration, Insemination, and Sperm Allocation in Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 107 (4): 858–865. doi:10.1603/AN14015.