Commatarcha galicicae Tokár & Srnka, sp. nov. is described from specimens taken in two south-eastern European localities, the Galičica Mountain North Macedonia, and Dubova Banat, Romania. The new species belongs to genus Meyrick, 1935, which for Lepidoptera fauna. It resembles some Asian this also American Bondia comonana (Kearfott, 1907) external characters. In genitalia of both sexes, it ...

A name commonly applied, including by the WHO itself, is “female genital mutilation” but this description may be ethically inappropriate. Descriptively, the word “mutilation” may be exaggerated, because it fails to distinguish between the four types of genital cutting recognized by the WHO. Evaluatively, the name is not a neutral description but a severely hostile judgment, since it condemns th...

Courtship in Drosophila is used already to screen genes linked to memory-deficiency and neurodegeneration in humans. However the research community does not understand the mechanism which gives rise to courtship patterns. When a male fly encounters a female fly, he starts to follow her, licks her genitalia, sings a courtship song and eventually bends his abdomen to reach her genitalia [1]. Male...

The study of genital diversity has experienced rapidly burgeoning attention over the past few decades. This research has shown that male genitalia in internally fertilizing animals exhibit remarkably rapid and complex evolution. In recent years, a consensus has emerged that sexual selection is responsible for much of the observed genital diversity, with natural selection largely playing a subsi...

This paper describes the female genitalia of Crossotocera wagnerella Zerny 1930, in Wagner, 1930 for first time. Photographs adults as well both sexes are provided, and records from North Macedonia reported.

Genitalia are one of the most rapidly diverging morphological features in animals. The evolution of genital morphology is proposed to be driven by sexual selection via cryptic female choice, whereby a female selectively uptakes and uses a particular male's sperm on the basis of male genital morphology. The resulting shifts in genital morphology within a species can lead to divergence in genital...

A patient with a 46,XY chromosome constitution showed the following main characteristics: eunuchoidal body habitus, lack of secondary sexual development, normal female external genitalia with absence of vagina, no gonadal structures, and complete lack of internal genitalia except for rudimentary ductal structures defined by histological examination. Her condition is clearly different from that ...