(from the article `spider`) The female genital structure, or epigynum, is a hardened plate on the underside of the abdomen in front of the gonopore. After the sperm are ...
The more or less complicated apparatus for storing the spermatozoa, immediately in front of the opening of the internal reproductive organs of female spiders.
the chitinous plate in arachnids that covers the opening to the female genital tract.