part of adult tergum adult tergum X 10. Tergit 10th sclerite 10th tergum Fig 22,23,24,25 Abbr: X-Te in ISBN:0-937548-00-6. TGMA:0000623 TGMA:0000623 The tergum of abdominal segment X. In male mosquitoes, usually developed as a pair of tergites laterally at the base of the proctiger; often articulating with tergum IX and the basal piece; sometimes confluent with the basal part of the paraproct sclerotization. In female mosquitoes, a small sclerite situated dorsally between tergum IX and the cerci in some species, particularly anophelines. apodeme of paraproct basal arm basal paraproct basal portion of the inner paramere basicercus basolateral sclerotization basolateral sclerotization of proctiger default_namespace dorsal arm of sternum 10 dorsal arm of the tenth sternite inner paramere interbasal plate lateral arm of the paraproct lateral portion of paraproct lateral process of ventro-lateral plate paraproct apodeme piece oblique tenth sternite tenth tergite tergite 10 adult abdominal segment X