Description of a new Planicapritermes from Central Amazonia, with notes on the morphology of the digestive tube of the Neocapritermes-Planicapritermes group (Isoptera: Termitidae: Termitinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 109-118

  Constantino, Reginaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

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