catena

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catena (noun; plural catenae; Latin catena, chain): (Arthropoda: Insecta) In male Lepidoptera, a series of longitudinal scale-like dentations on a membranous plate, covering the proximal part of the aedeagus of Anophia

See also: cornuti.