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Female barklice in the Neotrogla genus possess an erectile, penislike structure covered in spines called a gynosome.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023

This role reversal has rarely emerged in nature: Only Neotrogla barklice and a closely related group of insects in southern Africa possess a gynosome.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023

The perpetually dry cave systems the barklice inhabit in southeastern Brazil are often short on nutrients and moisture.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023

For that, only barklice are known to have reversed the way of things, with the gynosome evolving from a different set of tissues.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019

Evolutionary forces seemed to favor these structures so much that they emerged independently in two lineages of the barklice, the Neotrogla in South America and the Afrotrogla in Africa.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2019