Dr. Holló Ferenc szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 3. (Budapest, 1970)

Female reproductive system: Ovary and receptaculum seminis situated on poral side. Ovary consisting of a large number of digitiform lobules, arranged rather closely and medially convergent, thus entire organ rather uniform in appearance: 0.2500.420 x 0.120-0.150 mm. Vitelline gland 0.080 x 0.150-0.210 mm, oval, very compact, extending above posterior half of ovary to posterior border of segment, medially usually deeply evaginate, containing there the Mehlis gland (0.040 x 0.060 mm). Vagina an elongate tube, 0.010 mm in diameter, distally infundibuliform and opening into genital atrium. Its proximal half widening into a large receptaculum seminis (0.210-0.300 x 0.060-0.100 mm), its maximal size attained in proglottides possessing a well developed uterus. This latter initially a diagonal tube on 0,01 mm Fig. 2: Egg type of Paranoplocephala omphalodes from Cricetus cricetus 2,ábra: P. omphalodes petéje anterior border of segment, then, concurrently with the atrophisation of gonads, it fills the entire medullary parenchyme, passing even the line of the excretory stems.It is not sacculiform, forming numerous irregular pouches; the mature eggs fill the entire medullary space in the last developmental stage. The mature eggs are globular, with a resistant, elastic outer and a thin internal cover, enveloping the „pyriform apparatus" containing the oncosphere.Average size of eggs 0.042 x 0.047 mm (limit values: 0.031-0.046 wide and 0.044-0.055 mm high); pyriform organ 0.029 mm high, diameter of bulbus 0.018 mm, length of embryonal hooks 0.005 mm (Fig. 2.).