basistyle

basistyle

[¦bās·ə¦stīl]
(invertebrate zoology)
Either of a pair of flexible processes on the hypopygium of certain male dipterans.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Males have elongated genitalia claspers consisting of a basistyles and a distyles (Byers, 1973; Skelley et al., 2007).
Total stylus length was measured by following the curvature of the basistyles and dististyles (Johnson, 1995).
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