Variable metapleural gland size-allometries in Acromyrmex leafcutter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 375-383

  Bot, A N M ^a   Boomsma, J J ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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