Mites that live with army ants: A natural history of some myrmecophilous hitch-hikers, browsers, and parasites

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 232-237

  Gotwald Jr , William H ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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NATURAL HISTORY;

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