Ergatoid reproductives in Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Isoptera : Termitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 223-238

  Miura, Toru ^a   Matsumoto, Tadao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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