Odonatan wing and body morphologies

Odonatologica

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-52

  Wakeling, J M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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