styliger plate

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styliger plate: (Arthropoda: Insecta) In Ephemeroptera, a sclerite on the posterior portion of sternum 9, variable in shape, which on the posterior margin gives rise to a pair of slender and usually segmented appendages called forceps or claspers; a subgenital plate.