FIGURE 2 in Like A Glove: Do The Dimensions Of Male Adanal Suckers And Tritonymphal Female Docking Papillae Correlate In The Proctophyllodidae (Astigmata: Analgoidea)?

FIGURE 2: Correlation between adult male and tritonymphal female body length (µm) in Neodectes spp., Proctophyllodes spp., and Proterothrix spp. (Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae). Length of the idiosoma was measured from the anterior margin of the prodorsum to the posterior region of the body excluding the opisthosomal lamellae in males. Body size was positively correlated between the sexes (rs = 0.66, n = 32, P <0.01) whereby larger tritonymphal females were paired with larger conspecific males.