Photo Galleries: Three Dimensional Lepidoptera Genitalia
Photo Gallery: Noctuidae: Erebinae: Ulotrichopus
Male genitalia images for dissection
voucher specimen 2010HLK:976 of Ulotrichopus primulina (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae:
Erebinae)
Genitalia were dissected and images taken by Hugo L. Kons Jr. with the GT Vision imaging system at the former American Entomological Institute. All structures are the natural three dimensional shape (not slide mounted) except for the juxta/anellus and abdominal cuticle (temporarily slide mounted for imaging).
Adult
KENYA: Laikipia Plateau, Mpala Research Centre, N 0.293° E 36.899°, 17-20 September 1999, 1650 m, S. E.
Miller & T. M. Kuklenski.
Capsule
(ventral with hairs and scales)
Capsule
(ventral)
Capsule
(dorsal)
Capsule
(lateral with hairs and scales)
Capsule
(lateral)
Valvae (inner)
Valvae (outer)
Valvae (ventral)
Valvae (ventral/inner)
Valvae (dorsal)
Valvae (dorsal/inner)
Juxta & Anellus
(ventral, flattened on slide)
Juxta & Anellus
(lateral)
Uncus & Tegumen
(lateral)
Uncus & Tegumen
(ventral)
Uncus (lateral)
Phallus
Vesica (with hood above)
Vesica (with hood above, slanted up)
Vesica (lateral, with hood on bottom)
Vesica (with hood below)
Vesica (with hood below, slanted down)
Vesica (lateral, with hood on top)
Vesica (lateral, with hood on top, slanted down)
Vesica (anterior side)
Ductus Ejaculatorius
Rectum
and Intestine
Abdominal
Cuticle (excluding terminal segment)
Abdomen
terminal segment (tergite on right, sternite on left)
Abdomen
terminal sternite
