On the Female and Male Genital Structures of Sitona Fairmairei Allard, 1869 (Coleoptera:curculionidae) From Turkey

On the Male and Female Genital Structures of Phyllobius (Metaphyllobius) glaucus (Scopoli, 1763) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Phyllobinii) from Turkey

“…Several authors use only the spermatheca for species identification but Pajni et al (1977) and Sert (1997Sert ( , 1998Sert ( , 2000Sert ( , 2006Sert ( , 2007 have found that the genital spicule, eigth abdominal sternite, and ovipositor are useful to distinguish species of weevils. Additionally, the shape of the ninth sternite (spiculum gastrale) has been used in identification of some weevils (Clark 1990).…”

“…The classification proposed by Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999) is followed. Nomenclature follows Pajni et al (1977), Sert (1998Sert ( , 2006, Tuxen (1970), and Wanat (2007).…”

“…Phyllobius (Metaphyllobius) glaucus (Scopoli, 1763) thrives from plains to mountainous and even subalpine zones (Dieckmann 1980). Structures used in copulation ( Figure 2) and reproduction have widespread use for insect identification (Hoffmann 1950(Hoffmann , 1954Tuxen 1970;Pajni et al 1977;Ter-Minasyan 1978;Pesarini 1980;Caldara 1985Caldara , 1990Sert and Çağatay 1999;Sert 1997Sert , 2006Yunakov and Korotyaev 2007). The genitalia of Phyllobius (Metaphyllobius) glaucus has been partially illustrated by several authors (Angelov 1976, Pesarini 1980, Yunakov and Korotyaev 2007 although some structures, such as the tegmen, parameres, manubrium, endophallus, ninth abdominal sternite, and the female genitalia remain undescribed, as far as we know.…”

Dynamics of a cooperative lock-and-key model in genital matching of Sitona Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

“…Most investigators have considered the parts of the external male genitalia of weevil species that are involved in the support and movement of endophallic structures, while the functional morphology of the male intromittent organs has been hitherto neglected. References to the female genitalia of curculionids are somewhat scarce as well, except for the external morphology and the physiology of egg production (Aslam, 1961;Garthe, 1969;Gültekin et al, 2019), or other associated sclerotized parts such as the spermathecae (Kevan, 1960;Velazquez de Castro et al, 2007;Sert, 2006). According to Gaiger & Vanin (2008), the female characters (genitalia and related tergite and sternite VIII) proved to be informative for establishing the phylogenetic relationships among genera of Entimini.…”

Comparative Morphology of the Endophallus (Male Internal Genitalia) in Eight Species of the Genus Lixus Fabricius, 1801 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae): A Scanning Electron Microscope Study

“…2015). Thereafter, Sert (2006) described the male genitalia of Sitona fairmarie Allard, 1869 including its endophallus. Medina et al (2013) examined the external and internal male genitalia of 327 species of the dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) and provided illustrations of the endophallus for 37 species.…”