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Figures 62-68. Figs 62-64: Heteromeringia norrisi McAlpine; (62) puparium, posterior; (63) puparium, posterior, ventral; (64) abdomen, 
ventral. Figs 65-68: male terminalia, Heteromeringia patula n.sp.; (65) external, left lateral; (66) external, posterior; (67) hypandrial 
complex, anterior; (68) hypandrial complex (distal portion of distiphallus removed), left lateral. Scale bar = 0.25 mm. 
Female terminalia (Fig. 102). Spermatheca slightly 
longer than wide, shallowly invaginated apically, dark, 
and with pronounced wrinkled collar. Spermathecal duct 
approximately four times length of spermatheca with apical 
section swollen. Ventral receptacle relatively large and 
recurved with flagellum long and loosely coiled. 
Etymology. The specific name is Latin for “spread/ 
extended”, referring to the characteristic dark lateral 
processes on the hypandrium+pregonite. 
Comments. The females listed above for Heteromeringia 
patula are only tentatively included in this species on the 
basis of medial pigmentation on the mid femur (uncommon 
