Assortative mating by both sexes in the cricket Platygryllus primiformis (Orthoptera: Gryllidae; Gryllinae)

Transactions of the American Entomological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-68

  Bateman, Philip W ^a  

^a Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

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