| However, in some species, females use male traits to predict spermatophore quality. |
| Dissections confirmed that these females had received a spermatophore at mating and had developed normal ovaries. |
| Grasshopper spermatophores consist of a bladderlike reservoir and a spermatophore tube. |
| Within 1 hr, the resulting spirally coiled, gelatinous spermatophore has been transferred to the female. |
| After the female moults the male then comes and courts the female and then deposits a spermatophore. |
| At each mating, the female receives a bipartite spermatophore consisting of a spermatophylax and a sperm-containing ampulla. |
