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English
Female of a fruit fly species, showing the unusually large oviscape protruding from the end of the abdomen
(entomology) The basal part of the ovipositor of some species of insects, typically the non-retractile sheath that remains exposed when the ovipositor is withdrawn and not in action.[1]
