The male postabdomen of Stolotermes inopinus: A termite with unusually well-developed external genitalia (Dictyoptera: Isoptera: Stolotermitinae)

Acta Zoologica

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-130

  Klass, Klaus Dieter ^a   Thorne, Barbara L ^b   Lenz, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Internal genitalia; Nerves; Phallomeres; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003492308     PISSN: 00017272     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6395.2000.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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