Compound eye ultrastructures in six species of ecologically diverse stag-beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Lucanidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 157-169

  Gokan, Nobuo ^a   Meyer Rochow, V Benno ^b   Nakazawa, Atsusi ^a   Iida, Koichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Compound eye; Fine structure; Lucanidae; Rhabdom; Scarabaeoidea

Indexed keywords

AESALUS; COLEOPTERA; LUCANIDAE; LUCANUS MACULIFEMORATUS; SCARABAEOIDEA;

EID: 0041173891     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.33.157     Document Type: Article

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