22 Eyl 2025 Pazartesi
Spermathecal ultrastructures of Chaetocnema montenegrina Heikertinger, 1912 (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) by Scanning Electron Microscope
Abstract : : The paper presents unknown ultrastructures of spermatheca of Chaetocnema montenegrina Heikertinger, 1912 which is one of the species of the subgenus Chaetocnema (Hortensoides) Özdikmen, 2021 are studied and figured under both stereo microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope from Turkey for the first time. The studied specimens were collected from Çankırı province in 2013 and 2014. Spermathecae so far were studied on the basis of only stereo microscopic studies in general within the genus Chaetocnema Stephens. In accordance with this, to reveal and to obtain new diagnostic characters with ultrastructural and detailed investigations of spermatheca of the species Chaetocnema montenegrina Heikertinger, 1912 are basically aimed with this study. It is revealed new diagnostic characters for spermatheca by investigations on ultrastructural morphologies in SEM.