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External sex differences in stored-products Coleoptera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

D. G. H. Halstead
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council, Pest Infestation Laboratory, Slough, Bucks.

Extract

The known external characters, and some new ones, for separating the sexes of pupae and adults of stored-products Coleoptera are described and in many cases figured.

Type
Research Paper
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1963

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