Even more specifically, a 130x scale replica of half of a male Formica obscuripes genital capsule.
^ Ectal view of the three main components. Ectal view of the penisvalva and volsellus. ^
^ Mesal view of the three main components. Mesal view of the three main components (exploded). ^
Click to enlarge! (insert male-enhancement joke here)
Just to make sure you don't think I crudely threw together some ridiculously shaped blobs and tried to pass them off as representations of a biological wonder, I've included some diagrams of Formica obscuripes genitalia from Brendon's recent functional morphology paper:
Boudinot, B. E. (2013). The male genitalia of ants: musculature, homology, and functional
morphology (Hymenoptera, Aculeata, Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera
Research, 30, 29-49.
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