... defensive and other com-pounds are products of the epidermis, which is a near-continuous, single-celled layer beneath the cuticle.Many of these compounds are secreted to the outside of the insect ... pair of gonostyles (the third valves) derived from the distal part of the appendages of segment 9 (and homo-logous with the styles of the apterygotes mentionedabove). In each half of the ovipositor, ... Primitively, two furthersegments lie proximal to the coxa and in extant insects one of these, the epicoxa, is associated with the wingarticulation, or tergum, and the other, the subcoxa,with the pleuron...