Comparative feeding rates of Coptotermes vastator and Coptotermes formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 289-294

  Uchima, Sean Y ^a   Grace, J Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; COPTOTERMES VASTATOR; ISOPTERA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0037288428     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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