Multiple nymphoid reproductives in the nests of the neotropical termite, Armitermes euamignathus (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 197-205

  Costa Leonardo, Ana Maria ^b   Barsotti, Raquel Cristina ^b   Soares, Helena Xavier ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b NONE

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