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Which of the following features is used to identify a male cockroach from a female cockroach ?

  • Option 1)

    Forewings with darker tegmina

  • Option 2)

    Presence of caudal styles

  • Option 3)

    Presence of a boat shaped sternum on the 9th abdominal segment 

  • Option 4)

    Presence of anal cerci

 

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As we learnt in

Anal Styles -

In male, the 9th sternite (segment) bears a pair of spine like anal styles, which are absent in female and are used to differentiate between male and female. 

- wherein

Additionally male cockroaches have long antennae than female. 
 

Males bear a pair of short, thread like anal styles which are absent in females. Anal/caudal styles arise from 9th abdominal segment in male  cockroach.

 


Option 1)

Forewings with darker tegmina

This is incorrect.

Option 2)

Presence of caudal styles

This is correct.

Option 3)

Presence of a boat shaped sternum on the 9th abdominal segment 

This is incorrect.

Option 4)

Presence of anal cerci

This is incorrect.

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