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more distal pairs longer; one or more pairs of leaflets with a few short coarse 

 basal teeth. Claspette broad, fleshy, consisting of a dorsal lobe (CI-DL) 

 and a ventral lobe (Cl-VL), fused basally but more or less distinct apically. 

 Dorsal lobe with one or two long, stout, pointed or rounded spines at apex; 

 ventral lobe bearing a long, stout, pointed spine at apex (spine broader than 

 the apical spine of the dorsal lobe), and with a slender short and a slender 

 long spine subapically. Basistyle (Bs) conical, nearly twice as long as broad, 

 rounded apically, clothed with long setae and sparse scales; two parabasal 

 spines (P-S) and one internal spine (I-S) present. Dististyle (Ds) a little 

 longer than basistyle and lacking spicules (minute non-papillated hairs), 

 curved, narrower medially, bluntly pointed at tip; terminal claw (Ds-C) 

 short, blunt. 



Fig. 35. Anopheles punclipennis (Say). A, Male Terminalia. B, 

 Phallosome. C, Claspetles. D, Wing. 



