| 31. | The atrium and vagina ( genitalia ) are considerably narrower than is the spermatheca ( organ for storing sperm ).
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| 32. | Spermatheca is a small oval membranous sac, lying between the lobes and at the front margin of the mucus-gland.
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| 33. | She fertilizes each egg ( with stored sperm from the spermatheca ) as it is laid in a worker-sized cell.
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| 34. | Females will often mate with up to three or four different males even though one mating is sufficient to fill the spermatheca.
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| 35. | Caste of " P . chartergoides " females can be determined by examining the ovaries and the spermatheca for insemination.
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| 36. | The queens have the ability to store sperm in the spermatheca, and use it when her eggs need to be fertilized.
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| 37. | The spermatozoa move to the spermatheca in the roof of the cloaca where they remain until ovulation which may be many months later.
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| 38. | Although females do have a spermatheca for long-term sperm storage, more recent mates tend to father the brood she produces.
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| 39. | The male can inseminate the hermaphrodite, which will preferentially use male sperm ( both types of sperm are stored in the spermatheca ).
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| 40. | There is remarkable extreme reduction of male organs in " Paryphanta busbyi " and the absence of receptaculum seminis ( spermatheca ).
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