Regressive molt in the Japanese damp-wood termite Hodotermopsis japonica (Isoptera: Termopsidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3 A, 2001, Pages 495-500

  Koshikawa, Shigeyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Tadao ^a   Miura, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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