Asymmetrical colour and wing-folding in tithrone roseipennis (saussure 1870) a neotropical praying mantis (mantodea hymenopodidae)

Tropical Zoology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 325-334

  Barabas S P ^a   Hancock, E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Colouration; Mantodea; Neotropical; Tithrone; Trinidad; Wing folding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033271989     PISSN: 03946975     EISSN: 19709528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1999.10539398     Document Type: Article

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