On the fore legs of seed bugs (heteroptera: Lygaeidae): Aggression and allometric scaling in Scolopostethus affinis schilling

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 6-10

  Rodriguez S, Rafael Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 0041903706     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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