Z-stack photographs were acquired with a Zeiss Axio Zoom.V16 microscope (Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany) equipped with a
PlanApo Z 1.0×/0.25 FWD 60 objective and an
AxioCam 503 color camera. Images were processed with the software
Zen 2 (Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany) and Adobe Photoshop 2021 (Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, USA) by cropping, contrast enhancement, and removal of the background.
Photographs were taken with EF 100 mm f/2.8L IS USM and MP-E 65 mm f/2.8 1–5X lenses attached to a
Canon 5D Mark IV SLR camera. Images and plates were processed on a standard Windows 10 platform using Adobe Photoshop 2021 (Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA).
Measurements and terminology follow Hastriter and Bush (2006) [5 (
link)], except that the term “genital aperture” has been replaced with “terminalia”. This term refers to the knob-like tip of the neosome abdomen that protrudes from the pouch or warble formed by the host (
Figure 1D,E), and which is morphologically distinct from the remaining part of the abdomen (
Figure 2A), and as such it conforms to contemporary terminology [9 ]. The terminalia are comprised of segments V–VII with the often diagnostic circular arrangements of setae plus the cerci, anus, and vaginal orifice.
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