Title: Adult male flour beetle, and close-up of genitalia

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MNO: 1637
Create Date: 00-10-20
Last Edit: 03-10-28
Media Type: Image
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File Size: 1,55
Status: approved

Description: Tribolium sp. adult male and close-up of genitalia, stained with Borax Carmine, cleared and mounted on micro-slide Micro-slide, Biological Sciences, U.of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. Insects often have rather astonishing reproductive structures, especially the male intromittent organ or aedeagus. In this flour beetle the aedeagus is withdrawn into the abdomen when not in use. taken with Zeiss Tessovar macrophotographic unit

Author(s): Jack Scott

Keywords: | Animalia | Arthropoda | Coleoptera | Insecta |

Alberta Curriculum Keywords: Diversity in Physical Structures | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | Grade 9 | Junior High School (Grades 7-9) | Life Processes Gr7 | Male Anatomy | Reproduction Gr7 | Sexual Reproduction |

Biology Course Keywords: None