Morphology in English

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convexus, 11.11.2021 6:00

Dear colleagues!
When translating the text of the article from Russian to English, I encountered a number of problems. Namely, I can't find the correct and adequate translation for some morphological features.
to the back edges of the temples - (to the neck base?)
The main angles of the pronotum are ?
Preshitkovaya stria - (Scutellar stria?)
Pre-apical notch - ?
Main edging - ?
vaginal palpation - (vaginal apophyses?)

Thank you in advance for your help.

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12.11.2021 13:29, convexus

I won't ask who is so interesting that it feels like a vagina

The first monographic work in history containing descriptions of beetle genitalia was a separate volume of Stein's Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Insects (Stein, 1847). In this paper, the author presents drawings and descriptions of the abdomen, internal and external genitalia of beetles from 26 families, and the descriptions are accompanied by very high-quality drawings made in the form of engravings. Terminology for parts of the female sexual apparatus was poorly developed at that time, but it was Stein who first coined the term "vaginalpalpe", which he understood as paired appendages of the last segment of the ovipositor (i.e., coxites), although many of the structures depicted in the illustrations remained without designation (for example, styluses).