Butterflies' Reproductive Systems
Male
Female
Questions
1. What are the male parts of a butterfly?
2. What cell is produced?
3. Where does it produced?
4. What are the female parts of a butterfly?
5. What cell is produced?
6. Where does the cell produced?
Answers & Comments
Answer:
1. They form a ring-like structure for the attachment of genital parts and a pair of lateral clasping organs (claspers, valvae (singular valva), or 'harpes'). The male has a median tubular organ (called aedeagus or phallus) which is extended through an eversible sheath (or 'vesica') to inseminate the female.
4. The oviducts of the female join together to form a common duct (called the 'oviductus communis') which leads to the vagina. When copulation takes place, the male butterfly or moth places a capsule of sperm (referred to as 'spermatophore') in a receptacle of the female (called the 'corpus bursae').