Morphology of the digestive tube of Macuxitermes triceratops and its phylogenetic implications (Isoptera: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-230

  Constantino, Reginaldo ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

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