Wing morph-related differences in the walking pattern and dispersal in a flightless bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus (Heteroptera)

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Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-42

  Socha, Radomír ^a   Zemek, Rostislav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; LOCOMOTION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

HETEROPTERA; PYRRHOCORIDAE; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS;

EID: 0038245049     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12100.x     Document Type: Article

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