gonopod

English

Etymology

From gono- +‎ -pod.

Noun

gonopod (plural gonopods)

1. (zoology) A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods.
2. (entomology) A clasping structure, possibly also evolved from legs, at the tip of the abdomen of some male insects.
   • 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45:

     ...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...